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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (a)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Future Amigas & suggestions
Message-ID: <158@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 14:09:07 EST
Article-I.D.: uwslh.158
Posted: Tue Nov 18 14:09:07 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 21:45:29 EST
References: <320@plx.UUCP> <4036@videovax.Tek.COM>
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Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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Keywords: IBM, Wordstar

In article <4036@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>In article <320@plx.UUCP>, Ed Chaban (ed@plx.UUCP) writes:
>
>> . . .
>
>> The personal computer marketplace demands THREE (count 'em 3) basic
>> features to insure a product's success:
>> 
>> 	(1) Spreadsheets
>> 		. . .
>> 
>> 	(2) Word Processing
>> 		a. IBM practically defined it with Wordstar.
>>		. . .
>
>IBM??  I seem to recall that Wordstar was available on the Osborne,
>an 8-bit 8080-based CPM machine that considerably antedates the IBM PC.
>
>					Steve Rice

Yeah!  I agree here with Steve Rice...my father uses Wordstar on his old
Z-80 based Epson QX-10 (count them...8 bits!), and it works amazingly well
(he also uses Wordstar on his portable Epson).  I believe that the Epson came
out around or before the IBM too.  (The quiet irony is that while my father
runs his Wordstar FASTER on his 8-bit machine, I sit here using VI on a UN*X
vax 750, with a terminal that has 2 Z-80's in it (TWICE THE POWER OF MY DAD'S
SYSTEM!) and it excruciatingly slow).
 
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Chris Lishka                   /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene -lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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