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		pgrote on Dec 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor) Sprint was a powerful, capable word processor. It was lightning fast and darn near impossible to lose files. Alas, it lost out to WordPerfect and was quickly dropped by Borland.

stevoski on Dec 8, 2018 [–]

Sprint was so far ahead of its time. It took many years for Sprint’s “always be saving” technique to be widely adopted by other word processors.

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