Re: XyWrite on an iPOD (was Re: new pc finally arrived and have to make decisions-help)

[russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,

You can do it, but the text is REALLY tiny!! :)


Russ
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From: Lisa Kleinholz 
>
> Can we get XyWrite to run on an iPOD? Now, that's my idea of heaven.
>
> Lisa
>
> --- russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >I think everyone's computer ought to just work. An OS, and the
> interface >ought to be, as much as possible, seen and not heard. Look
> at an iPod. >(Forget for amoment that Apple makes it.) This is a small
> computer that >has an os, a harddrive, an input device and a screen
> display. This was how >we used to describe computers. But it is also
> an appliance. The success >of the iPod, IMO, is not that it was the
> first to market (it was three >years late), or not that it is the only
> one, or not that it is the >cheapest. I think it is because you have a
> device that does really well >what it was designed to do. It just
> works. Do i know about its internals? >A little not much. (Some people
> have already gotten it to boot a version >of Linux on it.)
>
> -snip-
>
> >I don't know which wordprocessor you mean (Appleworks or Pages.) Pages
> has >some growing to do. Its at that awkward age now.
>
> >But, lets be fair, when you have Xywrite, IS there any other
> wordprocessor?
>