🚀 go-pugleaf

us008008@interramp.com (Phil Nasadowski) writes:

>In article <3vgabe$339@falcon.ns.net>, jdredd@eagle.ns.net (James
>DeBenedetti) wrote:


>> I can do lots of things on today's computers that I wouldn't have
>> dreamed of doing on the old Commodore PETs I used to use.
>> 

>But my old Apple ][E printed from Appleworks almost instanly after it
>loaded the print stuff in - my Quadra can't do that - M$word needs a PPC
>or Pentium to run decently.

[...]

>My point is - with all the progress we've made - have we really gotten anywhere?

Yep. We got to the point where your average printer boosts more RAM and
certainly more processor power than your ][e ever had, which allows you to
print your letter to aunt Sally with 17 different fonts (and there are 4656
more fonts on your CD) in 15 different sizes, and to include a picture of
yourself in the place of every single i-dot. And if you are real lucky, it
will even work. Oh, and software will automatically check your speeling and
suggest "Framemaker" every time you type "Interleaf".

Compare that to the times of Appleworks, when you couldn't even have your
right margin come down in a straight line, had to proofread your stuff, and
all you could do as far as formatting was concerned was to underline and, if
you were lucky and had the right printer, print bold. Oh, and though your
printing started instantly, it wasn't very fast, so when you decided to
print a 20 page document in the so called "Near Letter Quality", you better
hadn't anything to be done during the next hour.

Yep, we have come far. From the point where it was nearly impossible to
produce anything decent looking on a computer to the point where every idiot
can produce something which looks horrible without any problem.

Forgive me the rambling, but it's really sad when you look at what the extra
power is used for :-(

Bernie

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