On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 04:07:06PM -0400, sciguy via talk wrote:
I found Corel WordPerfect was unstable - even compared with Windows 98's wp. I could get some documents written in it, but I found myself using the Windows 98 copy more often. I recall there was some irony expressed at the time that WordPerfect originated as a Unix product, and its port to Microsoft came after. The irony was that the port to Corel Linux was a port from Windows, not a port from Unix, meaning that it had to use WINE libraries, which was the reason behind it being unstable. I think they did that to save money. I recall the experience being "so-so" but not "horrible".
The last really good version of Wordperfect for Linux, I remember, came from before Corel obtained it, when it was part of a RedHat distro I had and had to be installed using RPM. I recall it being an old version of RPM that some years later I couldn't extract with a later version and gave up on the idea. But it was comparatively much more stable.
Well it seems originally it was on the Data General mini computer, then DOS. I do remember using 4.1 on an amiga. What a joke that was. It didn't even remotely try to be an amiga application and pretty much any other word processor was a lot nicer to use on the amiga, even if wordperfect had more features. It seems a lot of the ports had the same issue. The macintosh version seems to have actually been a rewrite trying to be a proper application there. They eventually ported it to a lot of unix variants once they had a C version of the code but it did not start out that way. -- Len Sorensen