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Offline Rik

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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2011, 15:55 »
No, over here.  ;D
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2011, 23:11 »
WordPerfect for DOS was the only WP in town back then - apart from Wordstar. 
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2011, 10:42 »
Or XyWrite.
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2011, 13:09 »
yeah but surely you just want a basic text editor like.. well.. edit.
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2011, 13:14 »
Not if you wanted to format anything, Sam. WordPerfect did a very good job, considering it wasn't WYSIWYG. Not as flash as modern WPs, but a big step forward from typewriters.
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2011, 13:50 »
Quote from: Rik on February 14, 2011, 10:42
Or XyWrite.

Not heard of that one.  My favourite Windows WP was Ami Pro and I was devastated when it refused to work on Win95.   ::)
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2011, 17:00 »
XyWrite was very popular with the scientific community, Clive, as it handled formulae well.
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2011, 09:20 »
Personally, I used Wordworth on Amiga :)
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2011, 09:44 »
I wandered lonely as a Google cloud... ;D
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2011, 09:48 »
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Re: Five reasons why the sun is setting on Windows dominance
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2011, 09:49 »
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