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> performs about the same as MS Word did on a 486 with a floppy Except (gdocs for comparison) I now can: 1. Effortlessly access the doc on multiple devices, w
by gcanyon 4y ago
> performs about the same as MS Word did on a 486 with a floppy
Except (gdocs for comparison) I now can:
1. Effortlessly access the doc on multiple devices, wherever there is cell or WiFi.
2. See a visual history of every change I've ever made to the doc.
3. Collaborate with many other people in real time.
4. Easily incorporate images, tables, drawings, and other files.
5. Compare documents.
6. Use other character sets and emoji.
7. Add, have others add, and review comments.
I'm sure there's more. I don't remember everything about how primitive things were 30 years ago.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoRight, but how many things are actually central to document processing?
- fieldcny 4y agoAll of it, what do you think isn’t?
- dendriti 4y agoLiterally 100% of the documents I process are sent to other people. So collaboration and sending documents are core functionality.
- chii 4y ago> actually central to document processing? ahh, the no true scotsman style of logical fallacy. Document processing is not strict nor defined. The features listed in the parent comment are all very useful, and if the floppy disk document processor of 30 years ago could do it, the people there would also find it useful.
- Dylan16807 4y agoYes they would find it useful, but in terms of productivity what's it worth? For the things that aren't collaboration, it's probably single digits. Real-time collaboration is worth a lot for certain documents, but also you could have managed that on a 486 if you had a modem.