Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 18:44, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote: I didn't know but I can well believe it. Virtually _any_ 30-40+ year old code is, by modern standards, lightweight and fast. Compared to, say, C++, Ada is a lightweight, clean language. Compared to modern *nix, Multics itself is a sylph-like slip of a thing.

One of my personal favourites... there is a lot of word-processor advocacy online now and the one most people praise as The Best Thing EVAH is WordPerfect. I used and supported WordPerfect in the late '80s & early '90s. I never liked it that much. Fast, feature-rich, yes, but a UI one could only love because of Stockholm Syndrome.

But I remember 5.x introducing pull-down CUA-type menus and being for me significantly easier to use as a result. And I remember v 6, lambasted as sluggish bloatware at the time, having a graphics-mode GUI on DOS if you wanted. So I found a copy and installed it on PC DOS 7.1 on a Core 2 Duo Thinkpad. On a modern multi-gigahertz x86, it _flies_ along. It's snappy and responsive even in graphics mode, and by modern standards it's tiny. A dozen meg or so. I don't use it much but it's fun to do so occasionally. My main go-to WP on my primary laptop is MS Word 97 for Windows, under WINE on 64-bit Ubuntu. Again, sluggish bloatware when new, but ? century later, lightweight and positively snappy. Does everything I need and more, including the all-important Outline mode. Has proper menus, not a Ribbon. Runs perfectly under WINE including being able to install service releases to get it as current as possible. Same file format as used up to 2003.