[sclug] Re: Wanted: text mode word processor

Matt Lee mattl at gnu.org
Thu Dec 7 15:32:08 UTC 2006


On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:25:16PM +0000, Sean Furey wrote:

> Bochs?  Annoyingly slow for most software, but I'd imagine Word for DOS
> being somewhat less taxing than most things people try to run on it.  On
> the other hand, the ARM device you're looking to run on may be a bit
> less powerful than the average machine people run bochs on, which could
> cancel out the advantage....

Why not something like emacs? It can do all the things I need in a
Word Processor. It has a spell checker, and it will run on any
GNU/Linux system.

matt

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