Re: XyWrite history?

[Philip Friedman pfilf@xxxxxxxx]

I'm a newbie on the list, but came to XyWrite with II+ (having previously worked as a time sharer on an Atex system owned or leased by a former Atex programmer). 

Right now, I'm looking at the upgrade instructions for II+ > III and from III > III+.  There are 42 listed changes from II+ to III.  A la Carte Menus is not among them, nor is it in the upgrader for III+. My memory is that it came well into III='s life, as separate release. (My A La Carte manuals are in storage, I think. I also think I recently threw out [!] my still-shrink-wrapped boxes of Signature. The unused copy of XyWin remains, somewhere.)

But whenever they added the menus (for which I don't think they had much enthusiasm) the changes,
version to version were extensive -- 42, as I said, from II+ to III, and scores of changes from III
to III+, stopping along the way at 3.1, which was a distinct version. I think 3.56 was the one that
took out autocorrect (I run 3.55). In any event, the changes were very rich and varied, including
file handling, printing, display (multiple windows appeared in III), XPL. and on and on.  In each
case there were matching extensive changes in the documentation. And superb documentation it was,
as been recently commented on. Superb telephone tech help, too. Really knowledgeable folks, really
willing to help. And they got to know you, over time. However long XyWrite lives (and may it be a
long time indeed!) that world will never return.

Philip Friedman