Re: Is XW a dog?

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John Gordon writes:

>I agree. XyWin is not as bad, in my view, as some make it out to be. The
>speed is good in general and the spell checker is faster than Xy4 on my
>machine. Of course, neither is instant, the way Xy3 is, and that may be the
>problem. It takes a lot of courage to give up the speed of Xy3.

Something happened to XyWrite between releases 3.xx and 4.xx. Whatever it
was, it was a turn downhill in terms of real functionality. I believe it
had to do with IBM's acquisition of the product from XyQuest. My guess
would be that before that time, there was a single programmer somewhere
that really cared about that product. After that time, he/she was replaced
by a *team* and a committee.

Pure speculation on my part, but fun, nevetheless.   :-)

_Peter

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