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Atlantis Word Processor
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 18:19:52 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:12:12 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: Talking of small word processors, how big is WordPad? In Windows 8, it's 4,455 KB. But I wouldn't call it a word processor. To me it's nothing more than a glorified text editor. To me, a text editor uses a monospaced font, of a fixed size and colo(u)r, and with no bold, underline, or italic; and doesn't usually do word-wrapping. Or any justification other than the default left. Basically, could be (and was!) used on a character-mode terminal. Edit, in DOS (I've just tried typing it into a Run box - it's still there in XP!) was a (not very good) example. Note that I said "glorified." Yes, it's more than a plain text editor, but it's also less than a real word processor. For a lot of light home users, I suspect WordPad would do all they want. I'm sure you're right! But note that if you go back 30 years or so, typewriters would also do all they wanted. And a typewriter is even farther from a word processor than WordPad. |
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