Msg: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

I don't know why it is, but with all our processing power and new, structured, rational software, everything is still slower than XyWrite. Doesn't that tell people something?

Yes. So true. XyWrite has actually gotten faster on my newer Macs under Boxer, despite age. Faster even than under XP. No one does it better, certainly not Word.

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Exactly. I don't know why it is, but with all our processing power and new, structured, rational software, everything is still slower than XyWrite. Doesn't that tell people something?

At 26/04/2018 01:42, you wrote:

Reply to note from Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx Wed, 25 Apr 2018
18:38:16 +0100

> Meanwhile, I am so happy to have Xy4 in my life,

Me too! It's still a great program, and I'm thrilled to be able to run it
in 64-bit Windows, with vDosPlus.

I've been encouraging Harry to port his gargantuan XPL routines to the
Windows memory space via Python or another scripting language. If you
don't make impossible demands of it, Xy4 is still a remarkably capable
text editor. (And with U2, it's much more. Try editing a 300MB file in
NotePad, or EditPad Pro for that matter. Yes, you can, but U2's BigEd is
faster.)

As for Undo, the solution is simple: Don't make mistakes! It works for me.

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Carl Distefano
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