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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:42:58 -0700
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Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:43:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:17:54 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>> 
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:48:55 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> RISC ROMP was going to be for the DISPLAYWRITER follow-on running CP.r
>>>>> and PL.8 ... but it got canceled (lot of that market was moving to
>>>>> PCs).
>>>> 
>>>> And DisplayWriter hardware was replaced with DisplayWrite software.
>>>> Which was the world’s most popular word processor through much of the
>>>> 1980s ...
>>>> even though most normal PC users had never heard of it.
>>>> 
>>> The PC version couldn’t hold a candle to the dedicated systems.
>> 
>> It was extremely popular in IBM shops.
> 
> EBCDIC text (+control codes) saved on a PC floppy!
> 

I think Lotus WordPro used EBCDIC, too, but I never got into
hand-converting any data.

-- 
Pete