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Article #16860Re: OS/2 development
From: robin
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:41
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:41
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J. Clarke <nospam1@nospam.invalid> writes: > In article <3e493d34$1$ofgrcuna$mr2ice@news.redshift.com>, > bstephan@redshift.com says... > > In <b2ba6s326p2@enews3.newsguy.com>, on 02/11/03 > > at 11:59 AM, J. Clarke <nospam1@nospam.invalid> said: > > > > >> Wordstar by > > >> Word. > > > > >Deservedly. The producers of Wordstar didn't even recompile the > > >blasted thing for the PC, they ported the binary. Dog slow. > > > > I tried Word at that time and it was dog slow too. Seemed like I > > remember seconds of delay between the time I pressed a key and the > > character appeared on the screen. > > Odd. My secretary at the time, who was a damnably fast typist, had no > trouble in that regard on a 4.77 MHz PC with a Hercules board. Are you > sure you're thinking of DOS Word and not the early versions of WinWord? The problem was with Winword--i.e., Word 1.1 for Windows 3.1 > --John
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