Re: OS/2 development

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1 total messages Started by robin Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:41

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Author: robin
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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