Re: Xywrite antiques -Reply

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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Steve Crutchfield wrote:

> Why, for example, did Word Perfect go from the elegant
> version 4.2 to increasing bloated, slow, buggy versions 5.0--->9?
> or is it now 10?

>> Because that which was once designed for a specific
>> purpose--and did it well--was bloated into something that
>> attempted to do all things for all people--and did them all
>> badly. (One wonders, for example, how much

There is a General Rule that covers such matters: The more things
a device is supposed to do, the less well it will do any of them.
At one extreme, in mechanical things, there is the so-called
Swiss Army Knife, that will do almost anything, but do it
awkwardly. The more blades are added, the less well any of them
function. At the other is the **real* Swiss Army Knife, which
the Swiss Army actually uses: it has two blades, and that's it.

Clearly, MicroSquish is headed in the so-called Swiss Army Knife
direction; XyWrite was not.

 George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx