VDE Reviews

 ====================  7. REVIEWS / ABOUT THE AUTHOR  ========================


        "VDE is a word-processing program for people who like their
     programs lean, mean and simple... executes all the standard
     operations necessary for writing articles, books or screenplays...
     blazingly fast... Even the loading and storing of files is speedy."
              - Paul Ciotti, Los Angeles Times Magazine (18 March 1990)

        "This may be the finest piece of word processing code ever
     written.  I have never been as impressed with anything as I have
     with VDE 1.5... writing software in 100 percent assembly language
     still pays off in performance and reduced code size.  It's an
     astonishing product, believe me.  It's more than the perfect laptop
     word processor.  Actually, it's something that corporations should
     consider if they want to save tens of thousands of dollars...  I
     cannot give a higher recommendation for any product that I have
     seen in ten years...  Top recommendation."
              - John Dvorak, PC Magazine (24 April 1990)

        "What fascinated Dvorak was not just the astonishing functionality
     achieved with very little programming code, but also the attitude --
     and implications -- of the author who circulated it freely asking
     only for a modest sum...  VDE is an amazing word-processor, offering
     almost everything except the layout and document processing features
     found in far fatter programs... it supports the old WordStar command
     set... ergonomically the most efficient I've ever learned."
              - Colin Brace, Language Technology/Electric Word (July/Aug 1990)

        "I've used various versions of WordStar, WordPerfect, and Wang
     IWP.  I wouldn't trade my copy of VDE for shrink-wrapped sets of the
     latest versions of all of these.  I congratulate you both on the
     quality of your program and on your policy in making it available..."
              - K.N., registered VDE user (August 1991)

        "You've recognized a truth about writing, which every commercial
     word-processor vendor has forgotten.  Writing is about words -- not
     fonts or bit-maps or graphical layout.  Writers need the computer
     equivalent of a typewriter -- not a print-shop."
              - J.W., registered VDE user (August 1995)


     VDE has appeared in stores in "Dvorak's Top 30", a boxed collection of
 shareware published by Interplay Productions; it was also included on-disk
 with the book "Dvorak's Inside Track to DOS and PC Performance" by John
 Dvorak and Nick Anis, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill.



     Eric Meyer has also written the shareware ZIP serial file transfer
 program and Meyer File/Directory (MFD) utilities, as well as a number of free
 utilities for IBM PC compatibles.  He holds an A.B. in physics and a Ph.D. in
 history and philosophy of science, and has taught at the Universities of
 Indiana, Oklahoma, and Colorado.  A longtime computer enthusiast, he has
 programmed in languages from APL to Z80; this DOS software is written in 8086
 assembler.  Despite industry trends toward complexity and instant obso-
 lescence, he still believes that useful, inexpensive programs should remain
 available to users of even the simplest personal computers worldwide.

 Please write for further information about VDE.  Address correspondence to:

            Eric Meyer
          3045 4th Street             CompuServe: [74415,1305]
    Boulder, Colorado  80304  USA       Internet: 74415.1305@compuserve.com


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