Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

On 04/06/2014 05:04 PM, Urmas wrote:
> "CVAlkan":
>
> When WordPerfect 5.x arrived, there was even the ability to display a
> graphic preview (almost WYSIWYG) display of the printed output on a 
> normal
> character screen - and this was available not only for DOS versions, 
> but on
> a wide variety of platforms such as the then popular DEC and DG 
> terminals.
>
> You are trying to defend a text processor which stores text in a 
> proprietary encoding in the obscured format. Comparing to this, MS 
> Word which used easy and open file format was a clear winner.
I am not sure of my time line, but I remember only proprietary formats 
for early desktop applications and every software house had their own 
formats. The problem occurred because no one expected the problems with 
file type obsolescence. I doubt you can easily find a program that will 
open most word processing or spreadsheets from the before 1990 and you 
with some difficulty find one that will convert the old formats to a 
current one.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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