Blue sreen of Death and WordPerfect default Background same color, coincidence?? Edit No one knows what WP IS.

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LeeTJ

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I was at a clients and he fired up his WP, and my first thought was OMG Blue screen of death, then i saw the WP Stuff and new it was all right.

but, does anyone think this is a coincidence?? or did Gates Target WP when he came up with the Blue Screen of Death in Win 3.0?
 
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Originally posted by: LeeTJ
I was at a clients and he fired up his WP, and my first thought was OMG Blue screen of death, then i saw the WP Stuff and new it was all right.

but, does anyone think this is a coincidence?? or did Gates Target WP when he came up with the Blue Screen of Death in Win 3.0?
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coincidence
 
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LeeTJ

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Are you guys trying to make me feel OLD???

OMG, in it's HEYDAY, NO ONE would have quesitoned that WP meant Word Perfect.

sheesh, and that BLUE, the blue color should also have given it away.
 
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I remember typing in that blue background in WP. I love the kick@ss cursor. Ah, that brings me back to my first typed paper.
 
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LeeTJ

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Originally posted by: DeafeningSilence
my dos-based wordperfect was black, I think
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one could chose to change the background color but the default color was the blue.
 
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KeyserSoze

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Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: DeafeningSilence
my dos-based wordperfect was black, I think
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one could chose to change the background color but the default color was the blue.
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Ahh yes, the good old Blue. And then you had that stupid card above your keyboard to remember all the functions, and then those little color dots to put on your shift and control keys.

I remember when I got Word Perfect for Windows...thinking, "It CAN NOT get any better than this!"



KeyserSoze
 
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LeeTJ

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Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: DeafeningSilence
my dos-based wordperfect was black, I think
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one could chose to change the background color but the default color was the blue.
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Ahh yes, the good old Blue. And then you had that stupid card above your keyboard to remember all the functions, and then those little color dots to put on your shift and control keys.

I remember when I got Word Perfect for Windows...thinking, "It CAN NOT get any better than this!"



KeyserSoze
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Really?? not me, when i got WP 5.1 for windows i was like, this is the end of WordPerfect.

I loved those old keyboard commands. mouse and gui has made me lazy.
 
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Originally posted by: LeeTJ
I was at a clients and he fired up his WP, and my first thought was OMG Blue screen of death, then i saw the WP Stuff and new it was all right.

but, does anyone think this is a coincidence?? or did Gates Target WP when he came up with the Blue Screen of Death in Win 3.0?
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WP, lotus 1-2-3, sidekick hahaaa... brings back some memories... :)
 
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No coincidence. It's one of the 16 basic MS-DOS colors.
 
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CurtCold

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WP, and Lotus 1-2-3 was tha bomb, came to be installed on like 6 floppys, and was soooo much better than commodore 64 stuff we had prior. This was back in 7th grade when we had the big azzed floppys and I insisted to the world that I had no use for this computer crap.

Now look at me.....lol
 
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LeeTJ

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Originally posted by: Vic
No coincidence. It's one of the 16 basic MS-DOS colors.
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Let me try and understand this.

No Coincidence Bill Gates intended on Mocking WordPerfect??

or Bill Gates had no intention on mocking WordPerfect, he just used one of 16 basic colors.

I'm not exactly sure how to read your reply.
 
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When you only have 16 colors, you will see that most people will choose that same color. It is calming. You don't want to spend hours typing a report with a yellow background do you? And of course people would have been even more terrified if the screen of Death was red. Finally blue is color #1 in the color table. Whenever I make a line to test in my programming I just use #1. It is just convenient for me. That is one less number to try to memorize (is #5 magenta and #4 red, or the opposite...)

By the way, WP was the worst program ever made - for many reasons. Its competitors were lightyears ahead of it. I laughed everytime I saw someone struggling to use it. WP 5 advertizement: "Still a full screen to type on: no menu's, icons, or anything helpful to clutter up your typing experience".
 
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LeeTJ

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Originally posted by: CurtCold
WP, and Lotus 1-2-3 was tha bomb, came to be installed on like 6 floppys, and was soooo much better than commodore 64 stuff we had prior. This was back in 7th grade when we had the big azzed floppys and I insisted to the world that I had no use for this computer crap.

Now look at me.....lol
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BTW, to give you an idea of my age, i used WORD STAR my Freshman year in College. OMG that was a long time ago.

Wordstar ran on 1 floppy, my PC at the time (an 8086 cpu) only had 2 5.25 floppies and NO HD.

wow.
 
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DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Originally posted by: Vic
No coincidence. It's one of the 16 basic MS-DOS colors.
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Let me try and understand this.

No Coincidence Bill Gates intended on Mocking WordPerfect??

or Bill Gates had no intention on mocking WordPerfect, he just used one of 16 basic colors.

I'm not exactly sure how to read your reply.
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The BSOD is (or was) a text-mode screen which only has the 16 color set to choose from. I/O fatal errors (such as CD read error) have been white-on-blue since the DOS days, at a guess to make them stand out from typical white-on-black application screens.
 
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DerProfi

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WP 5.1 was my favorite full-featured word-processing program (shift-F7 print!) but I must admit that I often used MS Word for DOS in the 1990-91 timeframe because of its bitchin' <ESC> key formatting menu. It fit on a single floppy, too!
 
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