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- From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
- Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.175647.4420@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
- References: <0105002B.clqngw@digtype.airage.com> <1992Sep09.004257.3931@nds.com> <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:56:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
- >brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) writes:
- >
- >>Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko) writes:
- >>:
- >>: A while ago, there was a very negative discussion of WordPerfect (maybe
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- [...]
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- >>I can best summarize our opinion of WP5.1 with one word:
- >
- >> SSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
-
- [...]
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- >
- >I know WP5.0 with WPTERM=gui_color is slower than molassas in winter, but
- >I've seen WP51, and it is much better. WP51 for UNIX isn't out yet, as
- >far as I know, but I only follow SCO versions. I saw it at SCO Forum last
- >month, and it looked fast and fine.
-
- As I understand it (in my discussion w/WP) the Sun version is or has been
- shipping.
-
- Incidently, WP5.0 and Visual 603 (vt220 emulation + graphics) worked very
- well on our Sun 4/380. It was very nice to have a decent word processor
- that would work on both.
-
- john
-
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