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From: jqj@gvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word
Message-ID: <203@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 05:01:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 05:01:27 1986
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Reply-To: jqj@gvax.UUCP (J Q Johnson)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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In article <5100121@uiucdcsb> jabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>	I've seen and used packages that allow up to 10 windows.  This
>is for the most part unimportant.  ... I've never seen a word processor 
>in use that had more than three windows on te screen.  When you get 
>down to one line of text per window, you're using a fancy line editor!

Jabusch is correct.  Screen real estate is an extremely valuable
resource, especially on a poor 25x80 character display.  The word
processing environment I'm fond of (Xerox XDE) supports multiple
overlapping windows, each up to 60 or so lines long, with icons etc to
reduce screen usage of windows not currently the focus of my
attention.  I routinely use 6 to 10 windows simultaneously in
that environment.  It's too much to ask for all this (even overlapping
windows) in a PC-based word processor, but I *would* like a word
processor that supports large screens.  How well do WordPerfect, Word,
Xywrite, et alia support screens with more than 24 lines, e.g. the 44
lines available on an Everex Edge interface or the 88 lines it's
claimed you can see (I haven't tried it) with a Tecmar Graphics
Master?