Re: Climatic change... Wordstar, Wordperfect, Word (DOS)

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:48:18 +0800

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On 7/10/2026 12:29 AM, brian wrote:

> 
> Wordstar was the "real deal" i still remember some of the ^ codes,
> CP/M 80 . None of this "Johnny come lately" DOS  stuff .

Wordstar 3.3/4.0 does NOT have print preview.
Then WordPerfect 5.1 offers print preview,
which forced Wordstar to offer one. I think
it's Wordstar 6.0 ... cannot quite remember.
By then everyone (including me) had moved to
WordPerfect 5.1.

Microsoft Word for DOS wasn't that great back
then, until Windows 3.0. But some users liked
WYSIWYG.  Not  me though. Print  Preview  was
good enough.

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