Re: XyWrite on an old laptop?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

"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?
>

The DOS versions of XyWrite (either 3.5x or 4.0x) will run just fine on a
386, although if you're using 4.0x, some operations might be slower than you
might like, but not ordinary word processing.

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