From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:09:35 GMT
Date: 2003-03-05T21:09:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jIt9a.25913$8f7.1890@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b45n94$bad$1@oanews.nswc.navy.mil
"Dave Head" <rally2xs@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:b45n94$bad$1@oanews.nswc.navy.mil...
> 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.
And yet back when WordStar was king, so many people were familiar with the
WS key combinations that other applications used that interface. Of course,
after the mass exodus to WordPerfect, these same apps began to look a little
silly.
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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
2003-03-05 21:09 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
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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