Re: The Beauty of Finished Software

From	Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: The Beauty of Finished Software
Date	2024-01-04 20:24 +0000
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On Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:15:05 -0500, Retrograde wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 19:35:26 -0800 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Good for him!  I liked WS a lot.  There's a linux look-alike (can't
>> remember the name) which I tried and decided I didn't want to use it --
> 
> There are several, now.  I use JOE (Joe's own editor), whose jstar mode
> emulates WS well-enough for me.  There's also WordTsar, who aims to
> replicate it exactly.
> http://wordtsar.ca
> 
> Their website is a hoot: "the keyboard controls we love -- the user
> interface we all know, etc."  Fun to see this running on a Mac though.
> I'm going to take a laptop with 32GB of RAM and run a binary whose
> original version ran in, what, 16MB in DOS?  What will you do with all
> your extra RAM not otherwise in use?

Did you mean to say 16MB?



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