dchun@aludra.usc.edu (Dale Chun) (08/29/90)
Thanks to all that responded to the word processor survey that was presented here a couple of weeks ago credits listed at the bottom of this document. For those that missed the survey, votes were taken satisfying the requirements of: o fast typing speed o spell check, thesauraus, mail merge, etc... o fast response time on a 80286-10 machine o Budget of $500 per package. Multiple/negative votes were also accepted. Summary posted below: AMIPRO: (2 neg votes, 0 pos votes) All two of the negative votes casted described the slowness of AmiPro running on a 80286-10 in the Windows environment with 640K. Having Windows run in Standard mode or higher drastically improved the speed of AmiPro. WORD FOR WINDOWS: (4 neg votes, 8 pos votes) Similar to that of AmiPro, Word for Windows suffered a speed problem running in the Windows Environment. Learning curve was small for most users of Word for Windows. WORD 5.0: (4 neg votes, 5 pos votes) Difficult to use for some users. Ackward commands. Speed, layout and ease of use was a plus for some users. WORD PERFECT 5.1: (4 neg votes, 12 pos votes) ASCII file handling was poor for those that focused primary on ASCII file editing. Disliked by programmers. Ease of use was nice for some users. Integrated help was a big plus. Printer support was an emphasized feature. WORDSTAR 5.5/6.0: (1 neg vote, 5 pos votes) Secretaries tend to dislike this word processor due to the command layout. Fast, nice command layout for some users, mainly programmers or touch typists. Layout and printer support was an emphasized feature. MULTIMATE II: (1 neg vote, 0 pos votes) Slow, layout and document handling was poor. MICROEMACS: (0 neg votes, 1 pos vote) Good for editing plain ASCII files. VI: (0 neg votes, 1 pos vote) Good for editing plan ASCII files. XYWRITE: (0 neg votes, 1 pos vote) Fast, good for editing. Strong ruler formatting indicators. SPRINT: (0 neg votes, 1 pos vote) Low cost. Compatibility with other word processors. PC-WRITE: (0 neg votes, 1 pos vote) Shareware, lost cost and fast. LOTUS MANUSCRIPT (0 neg votes, 2 pos votes) Ease of use. Layout was a plus. Easy file importation. *** CREDITS! *** (many thanks to those listed below) If you submitted your vote and your name does not appear below...sorry. Check your finger information. If you do not have finger information: (eg. In Real Life: ....), your name probably isn't listed below. ...dale Date: Name/User: Size of Comment/Suggestion/Vote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17-Aug Dave Lange Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1070 chars) 17-Aug John E. Koontz, Fast Word Processor (1036 chars) 17-Aug Kathy Ball Re: Word Processor Suggestion (2445 chars) 17-Aug Kyung Lee Re: Word Processor Suggestion (2028 chars) 17-Aug akm@cs.uoregon. Re: Word Processor Suggestion (2365 chars) 17-Aug David Lesher Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1342 chars) 17-Aug jgarland%kean.u Word Processor Suggestion -- (2280 chars) 17-Aug Sanjay Keshava Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1299 chars) 18-Aug Chris G. Sylvai Word Processor (930 chars) 18-Aug RAMontante Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1066 chars) 18-Aug Joel Upchurch Word Processor Suggestion (2031 chars) 18-Aug Michel Biederma Word Processor Suggestion -- (1948 chars) 18-Aug Charlie Kestner Re: Word Processor Suggestion (3207 chars) 18-Aug Craig Werner Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1421 chars) 18-Aug Steven A. Breue Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1660 chars) 19-Aug 00RLPLACE%BSUVA Word processor (1262 chars) 19-Aug Dan Kahn Re: Word Processor Suggestion (2031 chars) 19-Aug Roger Hadgraft Word Processor Suggestion -- (911 chars) 20-Aug Eric DeVolder Re: Word Processor Suggestion (843 chars) 20-Aug Jan K. Genemans Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1887 chars) 20-Aug Paul Taira Re: word processor (1570 chars) 20-Aug Bud Howard/1000 Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1360 chars) 20-Aug RAMontante Re: Word Processor Suggestion (932 chars) 20-Aug Sherry Mann Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1346 chars) 20-Aug Wind Chen Word Processing (1206 chars) 20-Aug Terence Davis Re: Word Processor Suggestion (4131 chars) 21-Aug Alex Barry Re: Word Processor Suggestion (958 chars) 21-Aug Byron Burke Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1301 chars) 21-Aug Don Buchholz Re: Word Processor Suggestion (2764 chars) 21-Aug "Nina, Pinta, S Word Processors! (1762 chars) 21-Aug Kaye Brotherwoo Re: Word Processor Suggestion (767 chars) 22-Aug Don Buchholz Re: Word Processor Suggestion (1675 chars) 23-Aug Kevin Crocker Re: Word Processor Suggestion (3618 chars) 24-Aug Kevin Crocker Re: Word Processor Suggestion (4465 chars)