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Originally Posted by rcentros
Hope everything is okay there. I wish we could get a little rain here in Idaho. We've had a wet spring but a dry summer (so far).
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All OK, except the battery in one UPS is obviously now junk. Wife on her laptop was OK because the UPS for fibre, router, DECT phone, wifi & switch was OK.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
I never liked WordPerfect (even though it was "slicker" than WordStar) because I didn't like moving off the "home keys" to the Function keys. I mostly use Jstar for writing now, but I do have WordStar (5, 5.5, and VDE in DOSBox-X). At one point I also owned earlier versions of WordStar for CP/M (I owned a couple Kaypros for a while), WordStar 2000 and WordStar 6, (bought cheap off eBay). I don't know why I don't have WordStar 6 in DosBox-X, I guess I should add it. (I actually still like 5 best, because that's the one I started with.)
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I didn't find Wordperfect "slicker", just different. I preferred WS because I was used to it and it was also on CP/M. I had to use WP to teach wordprocessing, but didn't use it at home. By then almost no-one was using WP either (1992 or 1993?), which some years before had replaced WS in most businesses. In 1991 MS Word for DOS was certainly slicker and seemed common in Shannon Industrial Estate, but I was using NewWord, the Wordstar clone.
Windows in reality to be stable with reasonable performance wasn't very good or useful till about 1993 (NT 3.1 came out then, but I didn't have NT till late 1994) with Win 3.1 / Win3.11 /WFWG 3.1x, a 386 minimum, VGA minimum, 32 bit disc drivers, 32 bit TCP/IP, sound blaster, 40 Mbyte HDD (20 Mbyte was common but too small) and CD-ROM drive. I forget but probably 4 M RAM.
Actually NT 3.51 (after Win 95) ran well enough on any decent spec computer for Win95 and even had an an Explorer Shell preview just before NT 4.0. The most damaging thing for IT, businesses, and security was Win95 for business, rather than being sold as a game console. Set back security etc ten years+. We had NT 3.51 on an old AST 386 with 3 off ISA Memory cards for 6 Mbyte RAM instead of 640K! That was our first "real" server at home and the LAN was "cheaper-net" coax. Later Wingate for shared dialup 33K and replaced in late 1990s with 128 k ISDN. Then we moved out of town in autumn 1998 and had only 19K dialup. We had one Win95 (later Win98) for games for kids and stayed with WFWG 3.11 and Win32s till we got NT 4.0 on workstations.
Windows 1.x, 2.x 286 and 386 were less use than GEM. Win 3.0 on a 286 was barely functional. So MS actually was selling Excel and Word on Mac before Windows. Word 2.0a for Windows on Win 3.1 on a 386 is thus really the earliest decent version and when Wordperfect rapidly declined. Wordstar was down to niche sales in UK & Ireland even before Windows and probably before WS 7.0
Well, this is a thread about Wordstar, already very niche 30 years ago, so some nostalgia is in order.