Cudda done better

Author Peter Hitchens was complaining that he wrote his book The Abolition of Britain in 1998 using a primitive word processor.
    Making life difficult for himself, my techspert reckons. Back in 1998, you could have bought a second-hand PC that would have run a version of WordPerfect™ capable of typesetting and laying out a book to the same standard as the current version. One that could be used to design and print your very own hardback copy of your book. My techspert knows people who have done it – and still do it.
    It wouldn’t have been able to zonk out a PDF version of the finished book, but with publishers still taking in submissions printed double-spaced on A4 paper, it wasn’t needed.