#Humor
Sprint is a now-moribund DOS-based word processor marketed/sold by Borland
International. It is based upon FinalWord, which in turn was based upon a
marriage of the minicomputer editor EMACS and the Unix formatter Scribe. It is,
as I said, DOS-based and screen ugly, but has exceptional configurability (you
can essentially remap it so it becomes personalized–90% of the files are open
and designed to be modified), better PostScript support than anything in
Windows to date, has disk-limited virtual memory so your files can be almost
any size, allows up to 24 files to be open and remain open at once, and
includes automatic state save in which a compressed copy of everything in
memory is written to a separate disk file any time your hands leave the
keyboard so that even if you pull the plug or get a severe power outage you can
recover all your work even if unsaved. Many of its features are unduplicated by
any word processor past or present in any OS environment. Borland still uses it
internally and sells it, but stopped development on future versions when it
realized that it was never going to overtake WordPerfect. It retains a very
loyal following and because of its essentially open architecture a lot of
bright programmers have continued to upgrade and improve and add features to it
even though Borland does not. Quite a number of professional writers still use
it.
That explain things?