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   The Natural Philosopher to rbowman   
   Re: Please do not donate to any Linux di   
   18 Dec 25 10:02:10   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 18/12/2025 01:20, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:41:41 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >   
   >> Or could you be thinking of Works, which was a separate product?   
   >   
   > That's the one, thanks. According to Wiki it was cheap enough that it was   
   > often bundled. I remember poking at it a couple of times but it wasn't   
   > anything I would buy.   
   >   
   > The only 'word processor' I've used for much was Wordstar. It came bundled   
   > on the Osborne 1 and was a passable programming editor in text mode.   
   > Supercalc was also bundled but I never figured out what to do with it or   
   > the later iterations of spreadsheets.   
   >   
   WORDPERFECT was pretty good too.   
      
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