12 Apr
1999
12 Apr
'99
5:35 p.m.
Well, I don't know. However, MS Word/Windows and
/Macintosh has a strange
option: to have large white letters on a blue background instead of black
on white. This has nothing to do with any color settings, and no other
colors can be used in a similar way. This may have classic reasons. Anyone
know?
Don't know the exact reason but that was the
default color
combination of the DOS version of MS Word (and every day I use
the current version, I long for the old one).
Well perhaps it is because the de-facto standard DOS wordprocessor was Word
Perfect. Their system was default blue screen and white letters. A long long
time ago in a system far far away Microsoft was just another software
company and they 'adopted' WordPerfect's colors and emulated WP commands.
Paul
12 Apr
12 Apr
4:56 p.m.
On 12 Apr 99 at 15:35, Paul Passmore wrote:
Anyone remember the original name of the company ? Hint: not what one would
expect from a solid down-to-earth god-fearing Mormon state like Utah.
I have a very spacy ad in an old PC World whose slogan is " A word processor
should be an etension of your mind" .
ciao larry
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Well, I
don't know. However, MS Word/Windows and /Macintosh has a strange
option: to have large white letters on a blue background instead of black
on white. This has nothing to do with any color settings, and no other
colors can be used in a similar way. This may have classic reasons. Anyone
know?
Don't know the exact reason but that was the
default color
combination of the DOS version of MS Word (and every day I use
the current version, I long for the old one).
Well perhaps it is because the de-facto standard DOS wordprocessor was Word
Perfect. Their system was default blue screen and white letters. A long long
time ago in a system far far away Microsoft was just another software
company and they 'adopted' WordPerfect's colors and emulated WP commands.
Paul
13 Apr
13 Apr
11:16 p.m.
Anyone remember the original name of the company ?
Hint: not what one would
expect from a solid down-to-earth god-fearing Mormon state like Utah.
I have a very spacy ad in an old PC World whose slogan is " A word processor
should be an etension of your mind" .
But what kind of computer would a satellite software company have been
planning to run that program on before they ported it to the real world?
14 Apr
14 Apr
12:11 a.m.
On 13 Apr 99 at 21:16, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Hal ??
lwalker(a)interlog.com
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Anyone
remember the original name of the company ? Hint: not what one would
expect from a solid down-to-earth god-fearing Mormon state like Utah.
I have a very spacy ad in an old PC World whose slogan is " A word processor
should be an etension of your mind" .
But what kind of computer would a satellite software company have been
planning to run that program on before they ported it to the real world?
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