Comment 2HM Re: WordPerfect

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Still here and still important: FreeDOS and its loyal supporters

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BIOS Updates (Score: 1)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-07-15 19:30 (#2GX)

I still use it for Dell BIOS updates on my Linux systems :)

WordPerfect (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-07-16 16:17 (#2H8)

I keep meaning to get it running in a VM so I can install an old version of WordPerfect, and enjoy nostalgia for the good old days. I don't think I would want to be glued to a copy of WP anymore (particularly not the new version), but I hate the Microsoft Ribbon interface so passionately I think looking at an old DOS application might actually do me good.

I still remember back in University in '93 though when the computer lab had something like 40 PCs and 15 Macs, and everyone lined up for the Macs to do their papers on. Writing was on the wall for that interface for word processing. Thinking back, the machines must have been like IBM XTs or 286es, and the Macs I remember were Fat Macs or Mac SEs. Good times. I actually wrote papers back then instead of farting around on the Internet.

Re: WordPerfect (Score: 1)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-07-17 13:13 (#2HM)

We had the white on blue IBM 386s for keyboarding...man I hated that class. It was so pointless, yet mandatory.

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