[Coco] Window Writer was Re: MinTED

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun May 12 23:16:47 EDT 2013


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 08:20:53PM -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> Window Writer by Owlware wasn't too bad as a word processor for this
> kind of thing. I was at one time going to even patch it to run on a
> graphics screen (so that one could see real bold and italics,
> vs. color representations of them), but I never did complete that
> project). It was written mostly in BASIC09, from what I recall, and
> used a RAM drive for fast access to larger files.

Window Writer is pretty cool.  You're correct, it's mostly B09 and
came with a RAMdisk, though it'll use any RBF device you tell it to. I
did a fair bit of class work in WW.

Willard
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