Your point is valid, but only in today's context. It's hard to remember that, back then, the idea of actually "storing" your document on one of those computer contraptions was somewhat left of absurd.
If the document was important, or even if it needed to be retained for legal reasons, it would have been put in the traditional and reliable storage mechanism known as a "file cabinet." Even back then, floppies were regularly reused after the document was "done." And the idea that hard drives would be available for less than a gazillion dollars per megabyte (and what the heck was a megabyte anyway?). So, the best format was a silly and irrelevant discussion. The only things the new-fangled computer was good for (at least in terms of word processing) were permitting changes without using White-Out, automatically performing word wrap, and such things - and, remember, for secretaries and typists, these were AMAZING capabilities. And did any of them have the slightest suspicion that they were looking at what would become their replacements? When was the last time you saw a typing pool? (if you don't recall, that was where the typists went swimming during their lunch breaks). Thus, screen space was quite important. Back then, the concentration was on improving the generation and presentation of documents. So - if you were kidding, I apologize for responding seriously. We often forget that, back in the dark past, Ken Olsen (DEC) couldn't conceive of anyone ever having a computer in their home (what would he have thought about "in their pocket"?). And Bill Gates famously said he couldn't see any need for more than 16k of memory (he seems to have changed his mind over time). Have a great week ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Microsoft-Revisits-the-80s-With-MS-DOS-Word-for-Windows-Source-Code-tp4103960p4104377.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
