On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:04 -0500, mark wrote: > John W. Kennedy wrote: > > > >> Windows' easy-to-use interface, > > A second-generation copy. > >> Office's powerful business apps, > > Fundamentally designed in the 80's. Word for DOS and Multiplan were > > genuinely innovative (though, as I understand it, Word was developed > > Bullshit. As I've said before, once WordPerfect hit 5.0, and became > truly *usable*, it was (and is, IMO) far superior to Word, if for *no* > other reason than F3 (reveal *ALL* codes, not just what Word feels like > revealing), so you can *always* beat it into submission.
Impression Publisher was far better and its DDF was somewhat like ODF. Obviously nearly 20 years ahead of its time. Anti-aliased Outline fonts in 1989, drag and drop, true Wysiwyg, colour separations for graphics. Not enough marketing muscle that was all. Technologically streets ahead of WP or Word. Btw the RISC OS user interface adopted a task bar before Windows 3.0 was out so even without the contributions of Xerox and Apple, to make out Windows invented easy to use interfaces is sheer ignorance. The Windows UI copied other user interfaces to try and do something about the fact that to start with DOS at the command line was losing out to Apple and then Windows 3.0 was such a poor clone of the Apple interface it was embarrasing. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
