Hi Gordon,
On 30 Jul 96, 04:21, Gordon Young wrote to Don Nickell
 GY> I'm running WP51 for dos under Dos.
 GY> It really tickles my sense of irony to be slogging away with this
 GY> old system. It still works just fine, after seven years, and I
 GY> feel no great desire to replace it.
Well, I sometimes boot up my old 8 MHz XT and run WP5.1 on it. That's when my 
486 is occupied with another job  ;-)
 GY> A programmer friend of mine was telling me that, by cantrast,
 GY> WORD for windows is a "crashy" program. Everything *and* the
 GY> kitchen sink gets thrown in, and the program gets so big and
 GY> cumbersome it collapses.
Hmng ... I'm evaluating MS Word at work ... One crash in more than a month.
This compared to the old WPwin6.0 (no letter): more than two crashes a day 
average. WPwin6.1 is rock solid though: no crashes at all.
Word indeed has a kitchen sink -- but NOT everything! I've found only one 
minor thing WPwin6.1 can't do that Word7 can. And there are a LOT of 
important things Word can't do which WP can. E.g: rotated text boxes. Even 
Wp5.1 can do that. Word can't!
Greetings from
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