Microsoft Word 2.0 and 4.0

On Fri, 21 May 2004 09:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote: There never was such a thing as Word for Windows 4.0. Microsoft syncronized versions with Word for Mac and jumped directly from Winword 2.0 to Winword 5.0. Word for Windows 2.0 is actually a pretty cool binary. You can just cart the single winword.exe file around, which fits on a floppy diskette. It gives you the full (minus features like spell checking, etc.) word processor, and also the Visual Basic engine in a format you can plug into any (from Windows 3.0 upward) machine unfortunate enough to be running Windows, and the binary will load and run fine. I always keep a copy of winword.exe lying around. It probably even runs well in Wine on Linux. Microsoft Word for DOS 5.5 is a better deal, though, if you're stuck on an Intel box and want a Word Processor with real speed. It's probably even on-topic here by now. Sorta, in a painful way.