From: Jeffery Smith
Whenever a new technology is introduced, there is an explosion of
interest followed by improvements at a rapid pace followed by a
plateau where things sort of stay the same, followed by survival of
the fittest as the best things survive and the others disappear.
This all reminds me of personal computer and software in about
1985-6. At one point, there were about 30 kinds of word processors
all trying to make it to the top, some based on power, some based on
user friendliness. One PC magazine had an issue devoted to a view of
each (remember Einstein Writer, Perfect Writer, XyWrite II, Nota
Bene, Volkswriter, WordStar, PFS Write, DisplayWrite, Leading Edge
WP?)
Come to think of it, I have a copy of Professional Write (later version
of PFS Write AFAIK) somewhere around the house. It was about as close to
typing on a type-writer as a word processor came.
Easy formatting, you want at tab click on the ruler where you want the
tab to be; want to indent, drag the margin; CTRL+B = Bold, CTRL+I =
Italics, CTRL+U = underline; highlight, cut & paste and you've about
exhausted the formatting options.
No auto-format; no need to get all wrapped around the axle fighting the
program to get it to do what you want to do like with M$ Word. Didn't
have to tell it how you want to do things, you just did them.
Wonder if it would run under Vista in a DOS box?
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