On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:21:51 +1100 Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> I liked Wordperfect - as a DOS wordprocessor it was extremely > powerful. Never tried Word for DOS, though. Once Windows 3 arrived > Word trumped just about everything else. Wordperfect just took too > long to make the transition. i quite liked wordperfect too on DOS. extremely powerful and it was a quite a transition from something else called wordstar. circa 1991, my doctoral thesis was written using wordperfect. a little after windows came and conquered, i switched to linux. ~subash > Quoting John Coyle <[email protected]>: > > > First WP software I used was WordPerfect - the name tells a lie, > > it was an absolute nightmare to use > > compared with Word, when Word arrived I switched in a heartbeat! > > I also used Lotus WordPro, not as > > good as Word in some ways but had advantages in others - like > > allowing me to define a custom > > envelope size before Microsoft acknowledged sizes other than > > American. Sill use it for some > > purposes - you can tell it was well-written software when it was > > created in 1997 and still works on > > Windows 7. > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
