Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV

Tony D wrote:
Alvin wrote :

Wordperfect was simlar. Once the leader but too slow to market with
their windows version, again MS-Word wasn't perfect either but at least
it was there.

I think there were a couple of problems with WordPerfect for Windows
(having been unfortunate enough to use the bl**dy thing myself). The
first problem was that it was an awful piece of software - big, clunky,
and slow. Using WPWin on a machine with 2Mb of memory was interesting
stress test of the hard disk. Anything else that may have happened
(like, typing) was a bonus.

But the big selling point of WP was the printer drivers. The printer
drivers for WP in the pre-Windows days were far better than anything
else available, and printer manufacturers were keen to provide new WP

Yeah good point, I forgot about that, they were good.

drivers for new models. When Windows 3 splashed down, with something
approaching a common printer configuration for all apps, it became an
additional effort to support WPWin that the manufacturers weren't keen
on. So, almost at a stroke, WPWin lost the big advantage WP had had
over the rest. WPWin's own intrinsic problems then did the rest.

Do I sound like I hated WPWin ? That's good, because I did !


Ha ha ha, know what you mean, it encouraged me to look elsewhere too, I
found MS-Word 2.

Mind you I must've just missed the storm because Word v1 for Windows
had its own nightmare. How do you take 5 years to create a program that
should take 3 years? Easy demand to have it in 1 year.

If dbase IV is a case study of "time to market", Word1 is a case study
of "excess schedule pressure a good program doth not make". And I think
WPWin is just a bad program period.

- Tony

Cheers.

.

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