Re: Running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

XyWrite is the PC version of the atex as the latter was designed for a
whole system with server and terminals ( we had over 480 terminals when I as
in my newspaper) and people used a communication protocol called Mirror to
log-on from any where in the world into the system before email etc.
A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M Godfrey" 
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:59 PM
Subject: Running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!


> Fred Gross wrote, "the original XyWrite was a subset of Atex." As I
> recall, McGraw-Hill was setting its books and journals in Atex and wanted
> something that would run on PCs for freelancers (and probably to save the
> cost of buying more terminals). So it commissioned XyW. I did some
> freelance work for the old Personal Computing mag back in the 80s, and
> they were using XyW. They had copies of every known PC-platform word
> processor around then, so they didn't MAKE me change (I was using--laugh
> if you like--the Leading Edge Word Processor [it came with my first
> system]) but converting was a hassle, so during a couple of hours down
> time I pulled out the XyW manuals and learned how to do the basic stuff.
> After I got my own copy (3.45, I think), I found myself doing some jobs
> for a publishing house that was using Atex. By that time (late 80s, I
> think), XyW could do things BETTER than Atex: I would read galleys and
> pages and have to mark up bad breaks that Xy hyphenated correctly. Xy's
> hyphenation algorithms are the best I have ever seen (apart from its
> breaking its own name XyW-rite if you don't brute-force it).
> Patricia
>