Re: Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 09:10 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 15:54 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> >> With Fedora, you can get a complete word-processing suite (though why
> >> they disabled the Replacement list in AutoCorrect for OpenOffice
> >> Writer, no one has ever explained)
> > 
> > I seem to recall someone mentioning search and replace being under
> > threat of one of those foolish patents from some other application that
> > first provided search and replace, according to them.
> > 
> Interesting. I would think you could find all kinds of prier are for
> search and replace.  Maybe not auto-correct, but there was search &
> replace, and possibly a spell checker in Word Star for CP/M. The
> spell checker would have been a separate module - everything was
> broken down into modules because of memory limits. (It ran in less
> then 64k of RAM.)

It was a bit of a clunker, but it worked just fine. All the CP/M
machines I had had 64k of memory, and I had darn near one of each. Ric


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