Re: Apple and the Holy War

[bctimes@hotmail.com (Forrest)]

Somewhere, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>> Somewhere, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>> 
>>>Why the 78 chars/line limit?
>> 
>> Because that's what RJLissner picked.
> 
>Why did he do that?

You'd have to ask him.  Possibly to accommodate standard manuscript format 
with two spaces after a sentence.

>That's a display issue, not an editor issue.  Sometimes I encounter
>text files from the outside, with line lengths exceeding 80 or even
>255 characters.  Why should a good editor puke at such a text file?

There's a difference between wrapping lines and "puking".  There's also a 
difference between a word processor and a text editor.

>> Never used AppleWorks, have you?
> 
>Nope ... I've played with it one or twice but obviously I wasn't
>impressed, or else I would nave continued using it.  Now I hardly
>remember anything about it.

Everyone else was, which is why it debuted at #2 on the Softalk Top Thirty its 
first month, permanently moved to #1 the month after, and became the best 
selling Apple II program of all time -- all with no advertising.  At all.  For 
about six years.

As Tom "Uncle DOS" Weishaar put it, it was/is "as important a characteristic 
of the Apple II as DOS, Applesoft, or the [System] Monitor."