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Re: Why are you using Word, what got you started? (RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?)
Subject:Re: Why are you using Word, what got you started? (RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?) From:Aahz <aahz -at- pythoncraft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:56:54 -0400
On Fri, May 31, 2002, "Bill Hall" wrote:
>
> I discovered personal computing and WordStar 3.* in a CP/M (and
> concurrent CP/M) environment in 1980, and between 1984 and 1987
> was sole author and documentation manager to produce complete
> and detailed documentation packages for a large collection of
> multi-user/networked business applications, including import/export,
> warehousing, GL, foreign exchange, clinical practice management
> (medical/dental/veterinary versions), yacht club, and stockbroking
> - all running in master/dumb terminal environments with a maximum
> of 386 K (not M) memory on Z80 (8 bit) chips. Also, as a writer
> I have never been more productive than when WordStar was my
> platform. R.J. Sawyer explained why this was so in 1990 -
>http://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm.
Note that the rise of XML makes possible the re-emergence of the text
editor as the word processor of choice. I like vi, and emacs is quite
popular.
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