Re: If it works, why change? (was RE: Anyone using the CAD packages?)
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:15:54AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:20, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> > True, they do work; however, so do soooo many other programs that
> > aren't given a fair shake in light of the numbers of people who
> > use the 'big name' products. WordPerfect is probably a prime example
> > of a program that is/was as good as any similar program developed by
> > M$ (if not better), but M$ start beating the interoperability drum and
> > people pushed aside WordPerfect for Word, and dealt with the problems
> > they had until they over came them.
> >
> > Funny side note on this.
> > I worked at a firm that for years wouldn't upgrade certain software
> > because the secretail staff refused to use anything other than
> > WordPerfect for creating documents. Not only was it WP, but it was
> > WP for DOS! (this is the honest truth!).
>
> Hey, WP6.0a for DOS was a *great* word processor.
yeah, it started quicker on 25MHZ box than word XP doesn on 1GHZ.
and it had reveal codes :)
and it wasnt wysiwyg til you rendered a preview :)
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Hugh
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