A reviewer at The Verge says a two-device distraction-free substitute for old word processors is worth nearly $900

[MineralMan]

17. I was the word processing reviewer and columnist for PC World for 12 years.

So, I had every word processor that ran on PCs on my computer all the time. I learned them all. Once a year, the magazine did a round-up comparison of all of them. The competition was a was a big deal in the late 80s through the early 2000s, but Word ended up winning that war. For my personal use, I preferred something else, but most of the reader questions that came in were for Word, so...

I chatted with Jerry Pournelle ever year in the press room at COMDEX. Mostly, though, about science fiction, my favorite reading genre. He always had an entourage at COMDEX. His problem with drinking got in the way of that relationship, though, for me.

These days, I'm using Word for Windows 16. I no longer get copies of the latest releases, and it has all the tools I could ever use, and more. I don't write for a living any longer, so I don't need even 10% of its features.

Those were exciting times in the personal computing field.