RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2026-07-20, 05:02:Ok. But why use MS-DOS for that? You clearly have XP, which would support Microsoft Word for Windows for better features and c […]
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ModernMan wrote on 2026-07-19, 22:14:
As i said on page 1, want to write some letters up (and JPG files too) save to USB stick and load them up in the library from USB stick then print them off
Ok. But why use MS-DOS for that? You clearly have XP, which would support Microsoft Word for Windows for better features and compatibility with library computers (and also built-in USB support).
I know that there is a trend right now for distraction-free writing by using an offline basic computer. Is this your goal?
https://youtu.be/H10x_n0zt_I?si=Tvd4catW7xaXUc1T
an interesting video and full of useful products as to what (under his own claim and not
some BS storey he heard about on the Internet) word processor files that will run on
MS-DOS
word start 4 from 1987
word star 7 (for DOS) 1992
But he dose not really make it clear weather or not word star has a spell checker or not
Word perfect 4.2/66.2 (into the late 80s)
Word perfect (is Just a blank screen!)
He says it cost him over 400 pound back in the mid 80s
But he say they bough ran on MS-DOS
He said that you can get them bough from certain online achieve sites
He says that he is running then on DOS but he says you can run them on MS-DOS or a
free DOS or DOS emulator or DOS box X (what ever they are???)
He says that Robert J Soya has created a download for them all
But he likes then because they are what they are just a word processor and nothing ells
like todays graphics page publications
More like he just want to write page after page for say a magazine
rather then along with design the magazine itself!(i.e. MS office and Libre office)
He also said that he tried multi mate and said it was terrible!
And would only work with single page letters
Then he said later on in the 80 Microsoft introduced "word for DOS"
He also said he like "Ashton Tate's Frame Work" which was ahead of its time!
which was an integrated frame work of data base word and spread sheet
which had multiple windows
Then he talks about Lotus123 had an integrated packaged called Symphony
But he did not like the way it saved its self into other file types
Then Lotus did a money script which was for technical processes of word documents
Then he mentions PC write that he liked (a shareware program)
Then Borland came up with Sprint