From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 15 19:23:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA16428 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foo.bar.com (F180-180.net.wisc.edu [144.92.180.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16413 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:23:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@foo.bar.com) Received: from localhost (jesse@localhost) by foo.bar.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00191; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:24:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:24:50 -0600 (CST) From: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" Reply-To: zaphod@imailbox.com To: Alex cc: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved to chat... ------------ "And mama said, That's what you get for jumping on the bed!" Jesse Kipp, zaphod@imailbox.com, jtkipp@students.wisc.edu ------------ On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Alex wrote: > Either way, WP 5.1 was one of the best written programs I've ever used. > It was blazingly fast (on a 486 none the less), so I wouldn't doubt that a > lot of it was written in assembly. It even came with a little task > swapper thing, that while not as powerful as DeskView, it certianly worked > nicely and came with a nice bunch of integrated apps (calendar, mini > database, spreadsheet, etc..). Those Mormons sure knew how to code DOS > apps back then ;-) > > - alex Wow! I never knew it had half of those features! I ran WP 5.1 on a 286/8/640k the only catch was if you typed to fast, the computer would get behind when you reached the end of a line... and saving and searching were painfully slow... I love WP 5.1, Is the source available? No, I thought not... Even a look-a-like with the same features for FreeBSD would be really cool.