tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Jim Cornette wrote:
Strong wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Wordperfect 6 for Linux which was capable of running Windows 3.1 apps.
I
believe the article is from 1997 timeframe though.
Is wordperfect not a text processor? How does it run an application?!
The concept was to load wordperfect under Linux. Also WordPerfect was
working on a program that was able to run Microsoft applications under
Linux. MicroSoft bought WordPerfect out and closed development on the
project and stripped out the code WordPerfect developed for the feat.
I was going to buy it when it came out. I believe there was a version of
WordPerfect Linux that actually made it to the stores. I do not know
whatever happened to the information on the web.
I'll try WordPerfect Linux to see what comes up.
What is a competent search engine? Google seems to be falling apart. It
could not find the sun in midday now.
Word Perfect, when it was a standalone company, had a version of Word
Perfect (the software) for various Unix OS's, including Linux if I recall
correctly. Then Novell bought the company, and in the shakeup the product
fell behind MS Word/Office, although it became an Office suit in its own
right about that time. Under the original Caldera Linux product (rebranded
RH 3.25 or some such thing) I ran the Linux version of the office suite.
Corel bought the product, bringing more damage to the table as things got
moved yet again. As I recall, Corel was (and started?? did??)
compiling the whole office suite to run with Wine binaries, so in theory
you could either run under Windows or under Wine with the same binaries.
There was also some effort, as I recall, to port portions/the whole mess
to Java, but I think that was pretty still born.
FWIW, IMHO, Novell killed a great product and the last real agressive
customer sevice organization in consumer computing. The times I called WP
help, I may have waited online for some time, but the techs I spoke with
_knew_ the product, followed up, and spoke a brand of english I could
understand. I was very sorry to see that service go away.
Thanks for the info. Searches for info revealed timetables where the
UNIX, VAX, Amiga, and other hardware types were mentioned. There were
mentions of their JAVA attempts also in that timeframe. Your
recollection helped me piece together some of the events.
I'll lookup Caldera Linux, which was found on some of the searches.
(with many different search engines)
Jim
