Re: How many of us are there left?

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

Theres no reason to give up on XyWrite 3 or 4 on a Mac. There are a variety of ways to run DOS programs, thanks to people who keep DOS games alive.

And if you want a no-nonsense native-Mac rtf editor suitable for academic work, have a look at Nisus
Writer Pro. Its no XyWrite, but its not trying to be Word, either, thank goodness.

Myron


> On Nov 13, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Caballero  wrote:
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> I pretty much stopped using XyWrite (I'm and XY3 fan) this year, but the recent stream of messages concerning options for using under OSX may inspire me to revive it. The automatic keyboard shortcuts are still in my muscle memory! (Thanks, Paul, for launching this informal census.)
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> Part of my problem is that I hated Windows from the start. I never adopted it in the 1990s. I went directly from an aging PC running DOS well into the 2000s to a Mac PowerBook in 2005 that allowed me to run DOS sans Windows inVirtual PC. But of course the end of the Power PC chip meant that eventually I'd have to give up Virtual PC--or reconcile with Windows.
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> I just replaced that laptop with a new Mac Book Pro. It's time to experiment with Boxer, etc.! The new version of Pages is profoundly inadequate (whereas the iWork '09 version was tolerable as a writing tool). I can almost hear Giuseppe Verdi's bon mot: «Torniamo all'antico e sarà un progresso». Perhaps there's a future for XyWrite.
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> Carlo
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> Carlo Caballero
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> Associate Professor & Erma Mantey Faculty Fellow
> University of Colorado
> College of Music, 301 UCB
> 18th & Euclid
> Boulder CO 80309-0301
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> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Paul Breeze wrote:
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>> Dear all
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea how many of us still use XY4, XY3 and XYWin? I'm guessing there are 20-30 from the list but that could be way out, in either direction.
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>> Paul