Old WPs (was Re: [SunRescue] Rant on industry employment

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Oh? I'm curious now - I only used it on Mac - clean and fast little bleaker.
What was so much better under NeXT? I believe it was an asm program (which
is why it might port between those two, but that's still a nasty mess...)

William 



on 1/8/01 11:19 PM, rescue-request at sunhelp.org at rescue-request at sunhelp.org
wrote:

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> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:53:11 -0600
> From: Reagen Ward <ward at zilla.nu>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: Old WPs (was Re: [SunRescue] Rant on industry employment
> practices, was RE: 16MB)
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:53:00PM -0600, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>> My pride and joy of old software (no kidding...) is my copy of WordStar 7.0D
>> on 10 3.5" floppies. I bought Virtual PC for my mac simply to be able to run
>> it and 2 dos based games. Still a sweet word cruncher. OTOH, I also own (and
>> have a soft spot for Mac Write Pro...).
> 
> My absolute favorite WP of all time is WriteNow on the NeXT.  I dislike the
> Mac version, but love the NeXT version.
> 
> Reagen
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