[101]. Ironically, Naiman wrote Introduction to WordStar with another program, WRITE, the creation of a friend of his, and WordStar itself is far from his favorite word processor. He compares it to a big Cadillac or camper loaded with too many features. My thinking is different; I want to have many to choose from; I’ll gladly ignore the others.
[102]. Since writing this section, I’ve learned that Park has left 800 Software for another company.
[103]. Carl Herrman is communications director at MITRE Corporation, a nonprofit research and consulting firm in McLean, Virginia. His address there is W 160, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean, Virginia 22102.
[104]. I asked John Butler, a Microsoft products manager, why windows would hit the market months late. “We don’t like to announce products too far ahead of time when they’re not fully developed” he said, “but with Windows we had to tell other software companies about its existence early on—so they could write programs taking full advantage of ours.”
[105]. I’m basing the “windows-shopping” questions on points raised by various micro publications, especially Popular Computing, May 1984, p. 96.
[106]. For background in researching this appendix—but not for the opinions, strictly mine—I’m grateful to Forrest M. Mims’s excellent article “A Few Quick Pointers.” It appeared in May 1984 Computers and Electronics.
[107]. Rubinstein’s “cheese” quote is from InfoWorld, May 14, 1984, p. 57.
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