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- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.174922.503@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 17:49:22 GMT
- References: <98246@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov22.143517.924@global.hacktic.nl> <By5vKH.EwM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <By5vKH.EwM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
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- >Word for windows can do anything that WordPerfect, VI or Emacs can do,
- >and yet the interface is crystal clear and easy.
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- You forgot SLOW :-)
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- I installed W4W on my 286/20 a few years' back, and loved it... until I grew
- weary of waiting everytime I wanted to do something besides write. I
- installed WP 5.1, which I didn't (and don't) like, but it is still the wp of
- choice for anyone using the old machine, and W4W just sits there, wasting
- several megs of useful storage.
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- Now, a 286/20 may not be the epitome of speed, but a slouch it is not...
- until you run any Windows application. Bletch.
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- Just before I closed my consultancy office, and gave the 286 to my
- granddaughter, Microsoft sent me v1.1 of W4W as a dealer demo. It arrived
- about two months after the release of v2.0, which was, if nothing else, an
- elegant statement regarding the speed of W4W rather than the courier service
- used to deliver it - major points to Microsoft for their consistency :-)
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