Re: xy museum

["Chris Madsen" cmadsen@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, there was a plain old XyWrite, as well as a XyWrite II.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: xy museum


> ** Reply to message from "AndyCh"  on Tue, 07 Oct 2003
> 11:17:59 -0700
>
>
> > Any idea on how to get all version of xy ?
>
> No idea.
>
> > No one owns the very first ?
>
> May be. But it isn't very satisfying to launch Xy2(+) on a modern
operating
> system. It runs very very slowly -- not because it is inherently slow,
but
> because of some software problem that nobody is yet able to resolve (or
nobody
> has bothered to resolve), but probably due to its expectation that it
> completely owns the CPU. Plus, it doesn't understand any Xy3 or Xy4
codes, so
> if you try to read a modern XyWrite document with Xy2, it beeps and
complains
> constantly. Most unpleasant.
>
> Was there ever a Xy1?
>
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> Robert Holmgren
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