10 Mar
1999
10 Mar
'99
12:42 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:
Yes, but this is Wang we're talking about, not Microsoft. You'd be
surprised what you could do with an early-to-mid-80's dedicated
word processor, which was basically just a computer with all the software
development going into word processing.
More research, grasshopper.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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This is most
likely for an "undo" feature. Sounds like some pretty
powerful mechanism is in place actually. To actually store keystrokes
implies that perhaps after closing down an application and re-running it
you still have the ability to undo changes.
Normally I trust your judgement but I think this time you're wrong.
It doesn't keep track of the keystrokes you type (as far as I know), just
the NUMBER of keystrokes you type. That would not help make undoing any
easier. Besides, the CPU is pretty limited, I'm sure. We're talking
early-to-mid-80's dedicated word processor here (possibly earlier).