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From: 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz)
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Subject: Re: Anyone Seen the New WordPerfect?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.210603.22589@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 21:06:03 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.175734.7100@truevision.com> jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) writes:
>In article <1991Feb14.023306.6105@hoss.unl.edu> 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
>>I don't know what to think about WP.  It has a TON of powerful things, but
>>then it's only TEXT and it's SLOW.  Now if the ProWrite, WP, PageStream,
>>and CED were to merge.....you'd have THE best WP for any computer BAR NONE!
>
>That's what multitasking is for.  ;^)
>
>-- 
>Jerry Thompson                 |     // checks  ___________   | "I'm into S&M,
>I loved the peace and solitude | \\ //   and    |    |    |   |  Sarcasm and
>so much, I invited my friends. |  \X/ balances /_\   |   /_\  |  Mass Sarcasm."

Yeah right, 37 megs of programs to do a report.  Well we might as well throw
in TeX (both commercial and PD versions), ed, edit, Excellence, a
BridegeBoard, IBM WORD, IBM GRAMMAR CHECKER, IBM WP, and to top it off
vi and emacs.
 
Boy now we can get something done! (well as long as you have that
10 Giga-GooglePlex Megs RAM expansion.)
 
:-)  The correct smilie
 
Phil Dietz


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