For some time now, the gaming console market has been
where the real
technological advances in consumer/PC computers have been made. Most PC
users in the business world could get along just fine with a '386 if the OS
and software weren't so bloated now.
Bob (who is still trying in vain to get MS WinWord to behave and who uses a
WordStar clone on the HP palmtop he carries)
The secret to making this work is pretty simple... you just need to
drop back to Word for Windows 2.0... it's fast, stable, and even has
VBA (albeit they called it WordBASIC back then).
-dq