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What was a great program that's now been forgotten?
mouser:
xywrite text editor: http://www.xywrite.com/
xtabber:
xywrite text editor: http://www.xywrite.com/
-mouser (January 28, 2020, 09:38 AM)
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+1 !!!
xywrite was a lot more than a text editor. It was an advanced word processing system that, within a purely text-based environment, anticipated many of the capabilities of today's web browsers.
And it was FAST!
But much of its speed and power came from implementing its own hardware interfaces internally, rather than relying on the operating system for screen and print drivers. That was not sustainable as the personal computer industry expanded exponentially and also moved to a graphical environment.
zridling:
Google Desktop Search.
-kunkel321 (January 24, 2020, 03:52 PM)
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Oh wow, I had definitely forgotten this one. Google's killed more of its own apps than any company in history!
superboyac:
man, there are so many i'm forgetting. software pre-iphone was so nice, generally speaking. Before the iphone, windows software still had really nice IMO interfaces and lots of cool features. then, as the pressure mounted to be similar to ios apps....these softwares became more cloud oriented, touch oriented (so all those nice features went away), and the whole poweruser environment we once had went away. i mean, powerusers were already the minority back then, but now it's almost entirely gone.
ShadowMaster:
HiJaak Pro was a great screen capture and graphic converter that was included with corel trace as of the last version i had used
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