8 bit vs other Computers.

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Sun Nov 24 20:48:01 2002

> > For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower case display,
> > full keyboard (compared to the membrane keyboards of some computers)
> > a good printer and at least 32k of memory, and floppy disks. The IBM

> I've written a lot of papers on a Commodore 64. I used this over my PC
> with Windows and Microsoft Word because it never crashed... That, and
> even with my 1541, it still seemed to save faster than Word.

Pocket Writer for the C64 rules. I also did a lot of my papers in Word
Writer 5, which is primitive compared to the bliss that is Pocket Writer,
but it had a much bigger document buffer.

For Ben's benefit, Pocket Writer *did* have a 80x24 (software generated)
display. So there.

Heck, if you want WYSIWYG on the C64, there's geoWrite/geoPublish or PageFox.

I'm still threatening to write my 'tiny vi' for the 64.

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