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If memory serves, the big advantage of wordpad back in the day was that it had line wrap, which was missing from notepad. But it’s been a while since I used win

If memory serves, the big advantage of wordpad back in the day was that it had line wrap, which was missing from notepad. But it’s been a while since I used windows 95… Edit: confirmed notepad behavior. Wordpad crashes in the emulator, then causes windows to lock up. https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

lewiscollard 3y ago
From memory, WordPad's other advantage in Windows 95 days was that it could handle files larger than 64 kilobytes. Notepad could not; it would prompt you to open files in WordPad instead if you tried. I always liked WordPad better than Word back then. It was faster and did all of the things I needed it to do. AbiWord occupied a similar sweet spot for me for some time after I went to Linux in the early 2000s.