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Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.
by twoodfin 1y ago
Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.
- RachelF 1y agoYeah, it was a great word processor. Better than MS Word, and it had features Word still lacks like mixing styles on a single line. What I find curious is how, as the market expanded, all these other Vendors died. One would expect the opposite - a bigger market means more diversity. An odd thing I still don't understand.
- theparanoid 1y agoWord docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.
- fred_is_fred 1y agoWindows 95/98 shipped with some kind of half-implemented Word, the name of which I forgot. So you could send a Word doc to anyone basically and they could read it, a great business strategy.
- bombcar 1y agoParadoxically the Internet killed the others; now printouts weren’t the standard document exchange format.