Signature v Xy4DOS -Reply

[Steve Crutchfield SCRUTCH@xxxxxxxx]

Signature was the product that XyQuest was originally
developing as XyWrite IV. IBM bought the rights, added stuff of
dubious merit (a lousy spell-checker), and then pulled the plug
three weeks before release.

Signature 1.0 and 1.01 were DREADFULLY slow and buggy.
Version 1.02 was a tad faster. When TTG took over Signature
and turned it into XyWrite IV, much of the underlying code was
re-written. XyWrite 4 is much faster and usable than Signature
ever was. There are some minor, under-the-hood differences,
but basically XyWrite 4 is was Signature SHOULD have been.

>>> "Dr J.L. Gordon"  11/27/96
03:36am >>>
Hi folks,

Well, I'm just back from my research trip to the National Library
(Australia) in Canberra. Canberra is about the distance from
Perth
(west coast) as L.A. is from Washington, in case you're
interested.
For my note taking, I used Xy4 on my 4 year old laptop running
OS/2.
Just before departure, as a result of someone on this list
mentioning
Ultravision, I found the disks that came with the laptop and
installed UV to load before Xy4 in a DOS full-screen session.
Worked
beautifully and gave me a much more readable b&w laptop
screen.

I discovered colleagues at the Australian National University who
also used XyWrite. They are still with III+ and facing some
pressure
to go to a recent version of Word. I told them about Xy4 and
XyWin.
While discussing the merits of Xy4, one said he had tried
Signature
and not liked it. He asked what was the difference between Xy4
and
Sig. I know that Xy4 was built out of Signature, but that's about
all. Can anyone tell me exactly what the difference is and how
Xy4 is
better than Signature?

Thanks,
John G.

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Dr J.L. Gordon
Department of Anthropology
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA 6907
AUSTRALIA

tel: +61 9 380 2850
fax: +61 9 380 1062

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