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From: rjung@sal22.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WRITE (retraction of FLAME)
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Date: 4 Apr 89 16:27:17 GMT
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In article <458@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
>In article <1419@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>> [Much talk about Atari ST's Microsoft Write, as well as the revelation
>>  there there might be an upgrade, deleted]
>
>as to my information, i have a friend who had a few work terms at microsoft as
>a programmer back when they released write. he informed me that microsoft
>basically just got the program to a working state, then gave the executable to
>atari to market, since ms has absolutely no interest in any other machine or
>market than ibm or macintosh.

  If they don't want us, we don't want them. Besides, what makes Microsoft God?
B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-)

>interesting to note: my friend from microsoft even had a copy of an internal ms
>write version that had special code to speed up screen displays when using the
>standard st font, which i don't believe made it into the release version.

  I'm not too familliar with Write, but I believe you WILL get this if you
run the program _without_ GDOS. But then you won't get nifty fonts on your
printouts...

>the reason for the slowness in the atari
>version must lie in the non-optimized code in atari GDOS, and GEM itself, which
>handles the plotting of fonts to the screen.

  It MUST? I'd like to see the documentation supporting this...


  You want my idea? Atari Corp. should go talk to Neocept. Let Atari license
_WordUp_ from Neocept, and release it with some more improvements over the
current 1.30 version (True footnoting, a spell checker/thesarus, index builder).
If Atari releases such a monster UNDER THE ATARI NAME, it has the potential to
blow the doors off EVERYTHING out there (especially if this entire package
costs around $100)

  Then again, I'm a drooling fan of WordUp, so my idea may be a bit biased.  B-)

>Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      
>"Those who can't, criticize" (author unknown)

  "A critic is a man with no legs telling you how to run."

						--R.J.
						B-)

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