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I remember it being loved by lawyers. The Mac version for the old System OSes was pretty damn nice, especially compared to the crappy versions of Word. I get
by protomyth 6y ago
I remember it being loved by lawyers. The Mac version for the old System OSes was pretty damn nice, especially compared to the crappy versions of Word.
I get the feeling that someone looking at the post for [1] might not do badly by cloning WP or more probably WordStar for the terminal.
1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412687
- bluedino 6y agoThe lawyers we consulted for liked it because they had to deal with 8.3 DOS file names. DOS WordPerfect let them view the next file with a key press. Click click click found it. The Windows version required them to go to File, Open, choose the file...
- ericbarrett 6y agoI bought a washer/dryer at a regional appliance chain recently. Checkout was at a desk with a terminal. The implementation was modern, with high contrast colors and nice fonts, but unmistakably still “ANSI” [0]. The employee who checked me out absolutely flew through the invoice, contact, and delivery forms. It was really nice after dealing with so many companies that just use web apps with obviously overloaded backends. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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- Finnucane 6y agoMore than a few years ago I worked for a legal newspaper. The editors has WP macros that converted to Quark XPress codes so we could drop the files right into our layouts.