Re:XY-Write under DOS/Windows & Inferior/superior(2)

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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