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OH MY GOD I remember LEWP, but my nostalgia here is fundamentally grounded in its instability. See, I kept myself in beer money by helping a few grad students r
by ubermonkey 6y ago
OH MY GOD I remember LEWP, but my nostalgia here is fundamentally grounded in its instability. See, I kept myself in beer money by helping a few grad students recover LEWP documents that LEWP had obligingly munged badly.
Great tool -- for people who charge money to fix it when it breaks!
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoI remember there was a master index file which implemented a sort of virtual filesystem allowing long document names w/ spaces. If that got corrupted it was a bad thing - only happened once but I lost an evening of work. Otherwise it never gave me any problems. I remember that document recovery used to be a big thing so I guess a lot of programs had issues - or maybe it was just the technology at the time was less reliable. I remember one of my school teachers seemed to think that inserting a floppy disk required you to slam it in with as much force as possible, and she could never understand why the disks stopped working [point to crease in media, point to abrasion on media, point to tear in jacket] -- complete mystery, can't have been anything she was doing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ubermonkey 6y agoIt was something about LEWP's goofy virtual filesystem, absolutely. Contemporary tech was really stable when crappy developers didn't get overcute. I made literally thousands of dollars solving issues with LEWP among a cohort of grad students between 1990 and 1992. I was never called upon to do similar magic for anyone who used a more serious and less idiosyncratic tool (at my university, Word was the mainstream option).
- pseingatl 6y agoWasn't LEWP a Multimate clone? And wasn't Multimate itself a Wang word processor clone?