What word processor for a slow system?

IonBlade

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I'm just picked up a slow laptop (486/33 with 12MB RAM and 240MB HDD) for working on text documents on the road. I've only been around the computer scene for the last 4 years or so and started with a 486/66 with more RAM than that and Win95, however, I don't think this one would handle 95 well at all (I really don't want Windows 95 taking up half the drive :p).

Because I wasn't around in the pre-486 dx2 / Win 95 days, I don't really know of any word processing programs for Win 3.11. I don't just want to use DOS edit because it doesn't support fonts / bold, etc. Was there MS word back in the day and was it powerful enough to do decent text editing (like reports for school, etc - maybe a picture or two, but that's it)? If not, what would you recommend for text editing on this system? Please help me out here. Thanks,
Shawn
 

sirfergy

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There were some good word processors. Wordperfect 5.1 text mode was really good, plus there was Wordperfect 6 for windows 3.1. It was ok, not the best though. :)