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Originally Posted by Quoth
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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Sorry to hear that (the UPS battery part).
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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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Agreed on the nostalgia. I basically skipped Windows 95. I was using OS/2 and stuck with its included Windows 3.11. (But all word processing was done with WordStar in DOS, which also ran fine in OS/2.)
I can't remember when I started using Windows 98 (or maybe XP), but I was using XP when I went to Linux in about 2007. (I had been trying out Linux for several years before finally moving over to it.)
WordPerfect was pretty big in Idaho in the early 90s, I think partly because it was big in Utah — to some it was associated with support for the Mormon church (LDS). I didn't try it out until much later (when it became cheap to buy a used copy on eBay). Never used it much. I think I still have the disks and manual in storage but I doubt I'll ever use it again.
Even after I owned a PC, I still did a lot of computing on a Sinclair QL, which came with a pretty good word processor called Quill. That was my first real word processor.
Again I'm rambling. Sorry.