[TenTec] Help me, I'm dumb.

j j justo222 at gmail.com
Wed May 20 11:20:00 PDT 2009


if you're looking for a wordstar-like word processor that is
compatible with newer windows versions, you might try this:

http://www.winvi.de/en/

the above text editor started out in linux but has apparently been
ported over to windows.  the original linux version is very popular in
the linux community.  not sure how compatible it is with the wordstar
commands as i never used wordstar, but if vi/winvi doesn't meet your
needs, check out the linux community of software and see if there is
another editor that is more closely related to wordstar that has been
ported over to windows and/or DOS.

 e

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 18:35 +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
>
>
>> One of the "features" of Vista was that it did not have hardware
>> support for old devices and programing support for some of the older
>> versions of Windows. It was designed with buying everything new. I've
>> stuck with XP and still have my copies of WordStar 3.3 (PC DOS version
>> of a CP/M program circa 1980) and WordPerfect 4.2 (circa 1986), both
>> of which I use about once a year.
>
> WS 4.0 works well in DOS, windoze, and OS/2. Later versions corrupt the
> document files way too much, but in non document mode its great for
> producing C source code. All my computer keyboards have CTRL just to the
> left of A, customized for WS cursor motion. I use it daily for packet
> radio and often for program source codes in OS/2.
>
> I could link my windoze computers that aren't used often to this linux
> computer for printer access, but I keep DOS for burning eproms and
> running AutoCad 12 and its hard to do networks with DOS. I've not yet
> tried to run AutoCad 12 with xdosemu. Maybe I should try that.
>>
>> Most new computers do not come with serial or parallel ports nor
>> floppy drives. New radios will have to come with USB or Ethernet ports
>> for computer control (doesn't the Omni 7 have an ethernet port?)
>
> I suppose I'll only be using vintage computers as time passes. I can't
> see using a 17 GHz CPU waiting for key strokes. The super fast CPU just
> has to spend a greater fraction of its clock cycles in wait loops that
> consume power just like adding and subtracting.
>>
>> Either that or the hot topic on 2m will be keeping old computers
>> running.
>
> There is some of that already. I'm talking about setting up a packet bbs
> and since the software has been known to run on an 8088 at 4 MHz it
> seems to be a waste to run a multiple GHz (and power hungry) super
> Pentium or AMD doing such tasks. I would drop the clock speed on
> whatever I use to reduce power consumption too for a computer that will
> be running 24/7. I'm going to use a CF and adapter to the IDE connector
> instead of a hard drive. That should save a few watts. I may do that to
> my shack packet computer too.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ


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