Ed Centanni wrote:
>
> Carnsarn it all you bunch of young whippersnappers! (he barks while
> grabbing at his upper plate flying across the room, that hits the
> one-eyed cat who then jumps and knocks over the Sinclair ZX-80, which
> falls on the keys of the TRS-80 model 200 portable and starts WWW III by
> sending a message at 300 baud to the worlds lone surviving pirate BBS).
>
> 'Way back long, long ago, I remember installing a text mode WordPerfect
> (5.someodd) for a client on an Altos computer with serial terminals and
> some kind of unix-like OS (SCO?!) 'way back in 1990 or there 'bouts. It
> was probably available for unix several years before even that. 'Course
> that was 'way before Corel bought it, GUI'ed it and screweyed it.
>
> Bottom line: WordPerfect has been available for unix-like platforms at
> LEAST 12 or more years that I'm aware of.
>
> Anybody remember (dare I say it!) WordStar?
>
> Ed.
>
> bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>
> > Corel has had word perfect versions for Unix and Linux for over 4 years.
>
> <snip>
Yes I remember Word Star on an 8088(remember that!) On Word Star you
would type a page of text then go to the bathroom, get a cup of coffee
and return to your seat and read the paper while the computer saved the
page of text you had typed.
Remember also that Word Perfect was the "Word Processor" long before
Gates & Company stole most of their features and incorporated "Microsoft
Word".
Timothy
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