And all Frank in South Africa can say is amen. For 13 years been using the same old XyWrite 3.52 and I've carried it across every notebook you can imagine, from an old XT to Pentium super-whigits. Good heavens, this is the best word processor ever made. I write and edit for a living. What must I do with MS Turd 7.0 which takes 30 seconds to load an ASCII file? Frank -----Original Message----- From: mp [SMTP:newsroom@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 25 May 2000 08:39 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re:XY-Write under DOS/Windows & Inferior/superior(2) Just one further comment: I mentioned the "killer apps" of XyWrite and Agenda for DOS. The main objexction to both these in the early years was their complexity and power scared people off and required a longer learning curve than the pulldown menus of MS Word and others. Also, Wordstar had already hooked people who started with typewriters and moved to the 8 bit c/pm systems with limited keyboards. Agenda as well had a long learning curve because of its complex possibilities. To this day, I don't feel that as a word processor anything can beat XyWrite for speed and flexibility (although not for 'desktop publishing' ease -- XyWrite can do it, but it's easier in a windows program) And anyone using Agenda will tell you that nothing on the market since has come even close to the flexibility and power of an Agenda database for handling information. But form (prettiness) has certainly taken the place of function (use). If you don't have the latest, you really aren't with it...rather like cars, or cameras, or fashions in clothes. As a fossil, therefore, I was pleased to note that the Hubbell Space Telescope was upgraded earlier this year by one of the astronauts with brand new state of the art hardware and software to enable it to work beautifully well into the new century. Pentium 3? not on your life. They used a well worn, proven 386. -pjd≪application/ms-tnef≫