27 May
1998
27 May
'98
2:41 p.m.
Ward Griffiths wrote:
Any "computer support" people they now have
(including any so-called Web
Masters) remember nothing of when Tandy designed and manufactured
their own computers and software. And they did some of the best Z-80
software in history. Scripsit 2.0 for the Model II is the second-best
_general purpose_ word processing program in history, just ahead of
WordStar 3.3 and just behind AllWrite by Prosoft. In my arrogant
opinion, and I started my career doing traing and support at a Radio
Shack Computer Center in 1980, left in 1986 _because_ everything was
about to be PC-compatible, and have since had to support crappy
Microsoft users because they insist on connecting the damned things to
the Unix boxes that are what I prefer. (I keep having to learn the
latest collection of Microsoft errors [oops, the latest version of
Windows] in self-defense).
Yeah, well I've been so sure of my view that WordStar was the best
general purpose word processing problem -- I think it's time for the great
editor debate round two.
(I especially loved WS v4 -- the New Word rework for CP/M and v6 of WS
for DOS.)
(I actually fell in love with WS2000 which had the one drawback -- that is
that it's not WS key compatible)
Radio Shack (Tandy) and Heath (Zenith) did some great work and they don't get
the credit they deserve.
Microsoft wrote a very nice 8080 CP/M basic, however.
8-)
Bill