8 bit vs other Computers.

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Sun Nov 24 19:17:01 2002

At 08:49 AM 11/24/02 -0800, Sellam wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, ben franchuk wrote:
>
>> For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower case display,
>
>What's "real word processing"? You must mean What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get.
>In that case, sure, an 80x24 screen would be nice, but the same can be
>achieved (and was, in fact) on 40x24 screens. And if we want to talk real
>"real" word processing, why stop at 24 lines? Why not the requisite 60
>lines to get a full page?
-snip-
>It's
>the equivalent of saying that nobody could get from Point A to Point B in
>any automobile before 1930 because they didn't have fuel injection, power
>steering and AM/FM radio.

Heck, a pc-xt running emtex (Eberhard Mattes' port of TeX for the ibm pc)
did better at formatting text than Word 2000, and this was back in 1990 or
so.
So did Framemaker on a Mac IIci in 1992, and it was wysiwyg.

They were slow, though.

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sun Nov 24 2002 - 19:17:01 GMT