It's an absolute killer, and they have no answer. I'm still running the same 1987 version of XyWrite, now on a super-fast screamer, that I was running in 1987 on an 8086, and it cooks. As a professional editor I couldn't want more. But ... 8.3 (no workaround) And I can't print through Windows 98 drivers -----Original Message----- From: Russ W. Urquhart [SMTP:urqurw@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 22 May 2000 21:31 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XyWrite on an old laptop? On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:37:21PM -0400, James F. Boris wrote: > Hi! > > I'm going to be getting an old laptop to use just for word processing on > the road. It's a 386 with 1 meg of RAM. On my desktop, I've been using > WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS, but I just know that will run too slow on the > laptop. How about XyWrite? Do any of you use it on a similar machine? Is > the performance acceptable? > > Thanks! > > Jim Boris > > James F. Boris > Pastor, East Lindley Baptist Church > 10067 Tannery Creek Road > Corning, NY 14830 > (607) 523-7772 The machine that i still use at home is a clone 286 machine. I get a fiendish sort of glee when i talk to people about xywrite and they say that word does everything that xywrite does..... I ask them if word, and all that functionality will run on a '286 machine, w/640K memory and a 20Mb hard drive. :) It works, no too slow, and i can still do more than most people with a Pentium and Word! fwiw, Russ > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.≪application/ms-tnef≫