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Subject: Re: Microsoft Word - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 28-Nov-83 18:36:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 28 18:36:48 1983
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ecn-ee!mahler    Nov 28 08:23:00 1983

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From:  Dick Gillmann <GILLMANN@USC-ISIB>

As requested, I'm reporting on the delivery time for Microsoft Word
from Conroy-LaPoint.  They promised delivery in 6-7 working days.  It
arrived Tuesday just after I sent out the last digest, which was 7
working days, counting Veterans Day as a holiday, since I ordered it.

Word is definitely nifty, but very complicated.  I'm trying to devise
a "style" package that would make it usuable as a program editor.
Interfacing this beast to a laser printer would be a real
breakthrough.

The Microsoft mouse that came with it doesn't seem so bad.  It is a
mechanical mouse.  The ball can be removed and cleaned like the Apple
Lisa mouse, although the Microsoft ball is metal instead of rubber.  I
was able to warm boot it with no problem, with the mouse driver in my
CONFIG.SYS file.

This setup seems very XT oriented.  The mouse card fits nicely in the
unused short slot on the XT.  All the programs are kept in a directory
named /MSTOOLS and there are quite a few kilobytes involved.  Word can
be installed on the XT hard disk and no floppy is required to start
it.  It wouldn't be nearly as nice on a floppy based system.
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