Applewriter used many of the same dot commands as WordStar. It predated AppleWorks on the Apple ][ and had a really extensive macro language. Don Lancaster published many articles about doing PostScript typesetting with it. Today we think of wordprocessing as being certain WYSIWYG bells and whistles. But I did a lot of real word processing on AppleWriter which today many would consider a text editor with a markup language tacked on. So now I use a text editor, Markdown, and Pandoc and get along just fine.

Thank you. I was hoping that people hadn't forgotten that Apple actually introduced the notion of a beige computer. Funny thing is that it really did set them apart. I remember friends of mine who had the shiny Tandy TRS-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80. It looked cheap. Somehow, the textured beige of the Apple ][e seemed much more modern. It also didn't show fingerprints like the TRS-80.

Of course, PC makers took that beige color and started churning out boxes that had even less aesthetic value. Personally, I loved the white //c and the somewhat gray-white //c+. Always thought the design looked so much cleaner. Maybe that is why I like my white iBook G4 and why I am pondering the purchase of a new MacBook. My iBook takes a real beating but it just keeps chugging along.