24 Nov
2002
24 Nov
'02
8:48 p.m.
> For a real word processing you need 80x24
upper/lower case display,
> full keyboard (compared to the membrane keyboards of some computers)
> a good printer and at least 32k of memory, and floppy disks. The IBM
I've written a lot of papers on a Commodore 64. I
used this over my PC
with Windows and Microsoft Word because it never crashed... That, and
even with my 1541, it still seemed to save faster than Word.
Pocket Writer for the C64 rules. I also did a lot of my papers in Word
Writer 5, which is primitive compared to the bliss that is Pocket Writer,
but it had a much bigger document buffer.
For Ben's benefit, Pocket Writer *did* have a 80x24 (software generated)
display. So there.
Heck, if you want WYSIWYG on the C64, there's geoWrite/geoPublish or PageFox.
I'm still threatening to write my 'tiny vi' for the 64.
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