XPost: soc.genealogy.computing   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 7 May 2018 19:36:26 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2018-05-07 01:44:32 +0000, Steve Hayes said:   
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   >> [ … ]   
   >>   
   >> They keep promising me a "better experience" if I upgrade, but waiting   
   >> ages for something to open is not my idea of a "better experience". Of   
   >> course if I were rich, as website developers assume everyone to be, I   
   >> could just buy a new computer every 6 months, to have the bigger   
   >> membory and more powerful processor needed to cope with software   
   >> bloat. and, of course, that's what keeps them in business.   
   >   
   >I agree completely. 30 years ago on my MacPlus I did my word processing   
   >with a program called WriteNow. It was much faster than any of the   
   >better known rivals -- Word, WordPerfect etc. -- and could open and   
   >save files virtually instantaneously, and was small enough to fit on a   
   >floppy leaving space some documents, so I could use it on other   
   >people's computers. Despite the fact that my present computers are   
   >vastly more powerful I know of no current high-end word processors in   
   >the same class. I _hate_ upgrading, and only do it when I'm forced.   
      
   Yes, I still use the XyWrite word processor, which I've been using for   
   over 30 years. It lacks the bells and whistles of the latest   
   bloatware, but still has more pistons and cylinders and actually   
   processes words better and faster. It was slowed down somewhat by the   
   introduction of keyboards with function keys along the top instead of   
   on the left where God intended them to be, but still ran faster on an   
   old 8088 8Mhz CPU than the bloatware does on the latest multi-gigaherz   
   ones.   
      
   And it too fitted easily on a 360K floppy disk.   
      
   This is drifting more towards the topic of soc.genealogy.computing, so   
   I'll copy it there.   
      
   Speaking of which, I also still use a genealogy program of about the   
   same vintage -- about 1987, though I did update to the 1993 version --   
   Family History System. I still use it, because it does some things   
   that thw latest programs don't. The program is the Family History   
   System by Philip Brown.   
      
   Most of the "updates" promise a better "user experience", but it often   
   goes along with reduced functionality, which, for me at any rate,   
   makes for a bad experience.   
      
      
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   Steve Hayes   
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