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From: ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word (XyWrite III in the battle?)
Message-ID: <226@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 16:21:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 16:21:17 1986
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Reply-To: ogasawar@cod.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Keywords: XyWrite Windows

In article <517@ho95e.UUCP> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs HO 2G202) writes:
>In article <222@noscvax.UUCP> ogasawar@cod.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara) writes:
>product said that it was very powerful, not easy to learn, and
>incompatible with almost everything, and we've found that to be mostly
>true.  (For example, lots of programs that mess with keyboard
>interrupts - Sidekick, Turbo Lightning, etc - can't deal with Xywrite 2+)
>Has this improved with Xywrite 3?

As I recall, "Real Soon Now" there will be a 3 update that will have
two versions.  One will be the "naughty" (bypass everything) and fast.
The other will be a bit slower but will allow resident programs.

Of course, I could have this info confused with some other product.
However, RAM resident programs and XyWrite still do not work together
for the most part.  One possible (though expensive) way out is to run
XyWrite under Microsoft Windows.  You cannot place XyWRite in a Window.
But you can let it take over the screen when you need it and escape back
to the calculator or whatever when you need it.  Although Windows is cheap
($95 list), the thing that makes it expensive is that you really need
about 1 to 2 megabytes of RAM to make it fly right...todd


Todd Ogasawara, Computer Sciences Corp.
NOSC-Hawaii Laboratories

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