Re: OS/2 development

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1 total messages Started by robin Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:40

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Author: robin
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:40

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bstephan@redshift.com writes: > 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.

That was related to the amount of memory at the time
typically 1 to 4Mb.  Doesn't happen with larger memories.

But there were other word processors on the market such as
CA-Textor which was whiz-bang fast, even with 4Mb.

> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Stephan bstephan@redshift.com or BobStephan@compuserve.com

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