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RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite



Lisa,


 


The main reasons more processing power became necessary: 


    

  1. Applications needed to be bigger along with more sophisticated operating systems to support.
  2. (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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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx  on behalf of Lisa Kleinholz 

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

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

 









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. 





















On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Bill Troop 
mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx wrote:



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.



--

Carl Distefano

mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx