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The UK also had a word processing applicatiom, the Amstrad PCW8256: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsODXKOYX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsODXKOYX8 I w

by jll29 5y ago

The UK also had a word processing applicatiom, the Amstrad PCW8256: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsODXKOYX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsODXKOYX8 I would like to see a modern incarnation with e-Paper, an SSD and an editor with focus mode, presumably you could run around for a week without charging.

zelos 5y ago
Locoscript was a great piece of software. I remember switching from that to an early version of Word and being incredulous that in Word the entire line of text you were typing would flicker as you typed because it couldn't redraw the screen fast enough.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
  And LocoScript wasn't even the fastest word-processing software on the PCW. (Protext was.) The PCW was such a well-conceived product. People were still using them as their main computer well into the '00s. I wrote some mapping software for it which LocoScript Software distributed - it did a creditable job of both display and routing despite having nothing more powerful than a 4MHz Z80.
  - lproven 5y ago
    FWIW, Protext for the PC (and Amiga, ST, & presumably 8-bit platforms too) is now legal freeware. https://web.archive.org/web/20140825104412/http://www.tigerteam.co.uk/protext/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140825104412/http://www.tigert...
lproven 5y ago
The PCW wasn't an app. It was a computer, able to run CP/M and thousands of apps. It also had a very conventional late-1980s UI. I love PCWs -- I still own 2 -- but comparing PCWs to the Canon Cat is a bit like saying that an Airbus A380 is a car, because it has wheels and an engine.