RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Philip White pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

It would be a shame to see a tool like XyWrite fade into the past.It 
is one of the reasons I’ve been 
asking everyone on this forum if they have any idea where the original 
source code for any version of XyWrite can be found.
With a modern programming platform, like MS Visual Studio it would be 
relatively simple to compile the original program code and link it to 
the modern operating system interface. - Not to mention the power of 
having the ability to easily address all the printers that are available 
in Windows, directly addressing huge amounts of memory for large projects, 
and the ability to make the data files available, synchronized on multiple systems worldwide. The list of benefits goes on and on.
(I wonder what I’d do with a text file that would test the memory resources of my desktop system. I have 32 gigabytes on my desktop machine. – My tablet only has 16 gigs.
🙂)
 
From there, it would be (relatively) easy to produce an XyWrite that would run on Windows 10 and even a version that could be used on iOS machines.

 
Another benefit is that doing this on an integrated programming platform such a Visual Studio is that additional programming could be written using VB, C#, C++ and a variety of programming/scripting languages that would run with the ‘new’
 XyWrite seamlessly.


From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx  on behalf of Lisa Kleinholz 

Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:11:46 PM

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Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite
 




Programmers got frustrated with programming in assembler and went to higher-level languages which make complex programming more doable, but also produce significantly less efficient code.





It would be a shame to see this magnificent program go extinct. Such a great writing and editing tool. I'm tremendously grateful for this list, to Carl and others, who have helped me make the transition with every new operating system that comes along.







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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Philip White 
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Lisa,
 
The main reasons more processing power became necessary: 

Applications needed to be bigger along with more sophisticated operating systems to support.
(more importantly…)
Programmers got frustrated with programming in assembler and went to higher-level languages which make complex programming more doable, but also produce significantly less efficient code.
And the rest is what you see now… 
🤔

 


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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:57:47 PM

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I don't know why it is, but with all our processing power and new, structured, rational software, everything is still slower than XyWrite. Doesn't that tell people something?







Yes. So true. XyWrite has actually gotten faster on my newer Macs under Boxer, despite age. Faster even than under XP. No one does it better, certainly not Word. 












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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Bill Troop 
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Exactly. I don't know why it is, but with all our processing power and new, structured, rational
software, everything is still slower than XyWrite. Doesn't that tell people something?





At 26/04/2018 01:42, you wrote:


Reply to note from Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx Wed, 25 Apr 2018

18:38:16 +0100



> Meanwhile, I am so happy to have Xy4 in my life,



Me too! It's still a great program, and I'm thrilled to be able to run it

in 64-bit Windows, with vDosPlus.



I've been encouraging Harry to port his gargantuan XPL routines to the

Windows memory space via Python or another scripting language. If you

don't make impossible demands of it, Xy4 is still a remarkably capable

text editor. (And with U2, it's much more. Try editing a 300MB file in

NotePad, or EditPad Pro for that matter. Yes, you can, but U2's BigEd is

faster.)



As for Undo, the solution is simple: Don't make mistakes! It works for me.



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Carl Distefano

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