From: "Dave Head" <rally2xs@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:40:47 -0500
Date: 2003-03-05T20:39:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Would WordStar have survived if it was rewritten in Ada?
No. The thing that killed WordStar is having to memorize all those keyboard
key combinations. Nobody wants to do that. Its also why EMACS hasn't taken
over the world's programming consoles except on those owned by people with
really, really good memories.
Dave Head
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 15:46 Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 20:40 ` Dave Head [this message]
2003-03-05 21:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 21:47 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2003-03-05 23:29 ` DPH
2003-03-06 0:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-06 1:57 ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-06 19:45 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 1:50 ` DPH
2003-03-07 15:06 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 17:22 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 21:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-03-06 14:06 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 19:47 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 7:18 ` Preben Randhol
2003-03-06 14:29 ` Dave Head
2003-03-06 14:44 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 18:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-03-06 19:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-03-06 19:50 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 23:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
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