Intel rejects Vista, will stay with XP and wait for windows7

I consider MS Word an 'anti-productivity' tool.

I do most of my stuff in write or 'wordpad' and import it (if required) to dress up as required later.

Preferred DOS WS over DOS WP though.

Graham

The DOS version of Version WP was probably the best thing at that time. By the time they delivered the Windows Version the world had moved toward M$-Word. It was good but it crashed an awful lot. By the time they fixed all the bugs, they really did miss the boat. It did not win the race for the Desktop. So now, M$ has an enormous percentage in the Office tools market.

How many desktops do you see running Smart Suite or Word Perfect Office?

They ended up laying him off a little later, because of his attitude problems. The last I heard, he is a radio operator on a cruise ship.

He was using an early version of Wordstar, so all formatting was not only useless, the exported file was full of extra crap. Since it wasn't networked, the only way to export data was to a 5.25" floppy, and that was one of the few computers in the company that had one. The others were all being used with older EPROM programmers on the production floor. No computer on the network had a 5.25" drive, and they let him get away with it for almost three years of not using the networked computer.

BTW, there may be errors in my posts for a while. I haven't been able to open my right eye enough to see out of it for almost a month, and the doctors said it will be about three more months before it heals.

We have a majority not running m/s office , most use a simple word processor and the tasks the machine is intended for There is a growing trend to dump m/s and install other o/s in the fields we service ... you should google m/s extortion on licensing fees..

About that stage I was still using Spellbinder on CPM. By the time I was able to play with Wordstar, it seemed a step backwards from Spellbinder.

Never met that one.

The first WP I used was 'View' on the BBC Model B around 1984. It had the endearing feature of only being able to efit 'forward', so if you wanted to go back and change something, you had to save and open the document all over again.

Next to that WS was a joy.

Graham

My sense of humor is fine. I just have a zero tolerance policy for low functioning morons like you and your twin brother Phil. You are both meat popsickles, dead from the neck, up and surrounded by angry flies.

Some terminal f****it with a very effect SoH bypass claiming to be Michael A. Terrell wrote just the puerile shit any 2 year old could leave for dead.

Yawn. Rod is still dumber than his twin brother Phil.

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Some terminal f****it with a very effect SoH bypass claiming to be Michael A. Terrell wrote just the puerile shit any 2 year old could leave for dead.