Re: Waxing nostalgic and way off topic (was: Another mailing listidea)

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Do you remember the final DOS version of WordPerfect ? They managed to do the
best job of anyone I'd seen in making a DOS app look and feel like a Windows app
when it wasn't ! :-)

Chuck

Jim Damato wrote:

> The death of WordPerfect can be attributed to two things:
>
> 1)  Microsoft's dubious practice of holding back useful Windows development
> information from competitive software vendors.  It was never proven, but
> both WordPerfect and Lotus 123 claim to have been unable to develop using
> the same hooks that Microsoft had for Word and Excel.
>
> 2)  Bloatware.  Spreadsheets and Word Processors were all but perfected
> years ago.  There's been no reason to come up with major releases to these
> products.  The second or third WordPerfect for Windows release was so fat
> and slow that it was unbearable to run.  The average user didn't need a
> desktop publishing application -- they just needed to type reports and
> memos.
>
> Reveal codes was a real "programmer's feature".  If you couldn't figure out
> why the document was layed out wrong you just looked at the codes that were
> behind the formatting.  At least once a week I find a reason to wish it was
> in @#$%! Word.
>
> If you miss WordPerfect's blue screen don't worry.  Windows has one of its
> own.
>
> -Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Galgano [mailto:cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:47 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Another mailing list idea
>
> Reveal codes was cool and I did miss it when I went to Word. But I had
> actually forgotten about it now until you mentioned it.   But Wordperfect
> messed up the first Windows version so bad.  Sometimes I still crave my only
> blank blue screen of WP 5.1.  That software got me through grad school.
> cjg
>
> Carl J. Galgano
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