I began my computing career on a Northstar Horizon and Wordstar on hard sectored floppies with a wide carriage impact-type printer. We stuck with Wordstar through around 1989 when my boss saw that we could make higher quality documents with the PC. We then used Wordperfect under IBM's DOS. We always felt Microsoft's products were inferior and childish even. When WP5 and MS WORD 5 were competing at the same time, we turned to First Choice because it had rudimentary billing system support.
The only program I really miss from back then, besides Elite in the Commodore64, is DBase lll. The GUI has taken the fun , mystery, and the human component right out of the PC IMHO --Kaplan > I can't expect someone who's never used WordPerfect to understand, but > the ability to view and manipulate the tokenized markup makes all the > difference in the world when creating or editing complex documents. > Plus you can immediately get the relevant settings dialog simply by > double-clicking on a markup token. > > As Ross Kodner often says, "friends don't let friends process words > without Reveal Codes." > > It's a tragedy that the StarOffice GmBH developers chose to mimic the > design and behavior of the least capable major word processor on the > market, MS Word. FOSS would be in a lot better position had they > chosen instead to embrace and extend the best of all existing word > processors. > > My 2 cents. :-) > > Best regards, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
