[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 14 May 2013 15:42:32 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) did opine:

> Would it be the spouse or Mr Word ?

Now whom is pulling whose leg?  Seriously, I went from coco to amiga to 
linux, and have never to my knowledge, ever ran a copy of Word.

Most any of our linux editors can probably kick it into the next drainage 
based on some of what I've seen on winderz boxes I get called in to 
configure the networking on.

> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 May 2013 15:23:03 Willard Goosey did opine:
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:12:07PM +1000, Nick Marentes wrote:
> > > > Oh? So there is no editor apart from the standard OS-9 one?
> > > > 
> > > > Surely someone has written a programmers editor for OS-9 by now?
> > > 
> > > There's several.  Problem is every time someone writes a new one he
> > > gets drowned in complaints that it's not MS Word and quits in a
> > > huff.
> > > 
> > > Willard
> > 
> > 'Scuse me Willard, but what the heck is MS Word? ;-)
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
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> > 
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> > 
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Cheers, Gene
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up!
My views 
<http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml>
BOFH excuse #418:

Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.
A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of
         law-abiding citizens.