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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wordperfect / far from 10 worst list
Summary: Even works on older hardware!
Message-ID: <8221@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 06:50:37 GMT
References: <213@imspw6.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc.
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Quoth bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) in <213@imspw6.UUCP>:
|From Ted Holden, HTE
|
|  With 5.0, they left the realm of compatibility with the first
|generation of PCs and moved into the realm of today's hardware, ega/vga, 
|fonts, graphics, and the whole nine yards.

I agree with your overall statement, I just want to pick one nit:  5.0
works fine on an XT-clone (we use it on an old Leading Edge, using its
old built-in Herc emulation)... a little slow, but it works fine, displays
fonts in Page Preview mode wonderfully well.

Try using Word 4.0 on the same hardware... most unsatisfactory!
 

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