From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: Lack of Imagination (was Re: Wordprocessor ... ) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 14:58:21 GMT
miguel@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (Miguel Alvarez Blanco) writes:
>Deryk Barker (dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA) wrote:
>: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>: [...]
>: : Exactly. And if WordPerfect were so bad, it wouldn't be the leading
>: : WordProcessor. There are lots of other choices available. Besides, all most
>: By the same logic: if MS-DOS were so bad it wouldn't be the leading
>: operating system...
> I agree. WordPerfect is the leading system due to marketing, not to it's
>marvels. I dare say that almost 90 % of the WordPerfect are doing it as
Of course that is a big factor, but the interface has been extended and
changed to meet the demands of users.
>a better alternative to typewriting (which is true), but doesn't use more
>than a few writing styles (I mean, bold, italics and maybe underscore).
I can see you have not used WP 5.1 before; it has over 15 different type styles,
countless fonts, etc.
Really, all the thread is arguing over which color is better:
red or blue. It's purely subjective. Besides, I perfer red AND blue :)
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