Speed of text editors on 808x platform

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I do have a WS 4.00 for MS-DOS, which I didn't see in your list.  
> It's the direct-write version.

While the 3.30 version isn't in the test suite available for download, 
it too was the direct-write version (trying to select a display resulted 
in a message saying that IBM DISPLAY was the only choice) so I did 
indeed test a direct-write version.  5.0 also appeared to be direct-write.

> Going from the sublime to the ridiculous...
> 
> You could always run Windows and Notepad.  (Windows will run from a 
> floppy if configured that way).  Note that I'm talking about 1985 
> Windows that runs on a PC with CGA/Herc/EGA.  VGA hadn't been 
> invented yet.

Ridiculous indeed.  If I was forced to run a graphical environment just 
to write some text, I would rather it be Geoworks instead ;-)
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