On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:39:53 +1000 "Adrian Try" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I reckon my old DOS software running on an original XP with 512 KB or RAM > would leave your Pentium in the dust! For a good time (as it were), take a look at http://www.dosemu.org I use that on a regular basis. Here is an article that I wrote regarding this very topic, if anyone is interested. http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles > The original GeoWorks was written in assembler. Unless my memory is faulty (which is always a possibility) I think Geoworks was originally written on Sun computers and cross-compiled to run on DOS machines. I just checked this on Wikipedia, though, and it says that GeoWorks was written in assembler. Odd. I wonder where I got the idea that it originated as a SunOS application or was written on a SunOS machine. I actually used to sell GeoWorks. It was bundled with Vtech Laser computer for a while, along with DOS 4.0. Cool stuff indeed, at the time. I remember being in total awe of their word processor with all of those fonts, and thinking that a laser printer would be a lovely thing to use with that setup. Of course, at the time a cheap laser printer was over $10,000 so there wasn't much chance of that happening anywhere near me. WordPerfect/DOS is a pure assembler program, and is (still) viewed by many as being the ultimate word processor program. Apparently a large number of professional novelists write with WordPerfect/DOS. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
