I loved XyWrite back in the day (mid 80's). I used it for everyday word processing, but once also used it to format a several hundred page film catalog. Our s

I loved XyWrite back in the day (mid 80's). I used it for everyday word processing, but once also used it to format a several hundred page film catalog. Our school district was having the catalogs typeset every year for thousands of dollars. I bought a Ricoh laser printer (about $5K at the time!) and used XyWrite on a 640K DOS computer to format the catalog just like the typesetter, printed it on the laser, and paid for my laser printer. The data for the catalog came from a Realia Cobol indexed sequential file and a Cobol program read that and wrote a text file containing the data with XyWrite commands. It took hours for XyWrite to format the file into PostScript on an 8MHz PC-AT clone, but it didn't choke, even on a document of hundreds of pages, and did it all in 640K of RAM. Some talented people worked on XyWrite.