On 11 July 2016 at 03:41, Fred <f...@miser.misernet.net> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > > [talk about word processors, specifically WordPerfect] > > I would LOVE to find a (hobbyist) copy of WordPerfect for OpenVMS some > day. Back in the day I could fly through those key combos on WP 5.1 ...
Ahh, yes. I did install one instance of MS Word 5 on SCO Xenix/386. That was... interesting. The client had 2 printers, a high-speed dot-matrix and a slower, higher-quality one. Getting the font support for Word working with both was a significant exercise. I think I wrote more and longer shell scripts for that single job than all the rest of my entire career (& hobbyist use) put together. Word worked surprisingly well. A 9600bps Wyse-60 struggled to keep up with Word's inverse-video highlighting, but if you were patient, or used block select rather than character-by-character (Ctrl+Shift+cursors instead of Shift+cursors) it could keep up. A _lot_ of work to get it all working, and honestly, while it did work, it didn't work particularly well. I think the client replaced terminals with PCs + a terminal emulator for people who needed WP functionality. They could print to the Xenix printer spools and that worked fairly well. Some clever PC terminal emulator from James River... [*Googles*] Ah, yes, ICE.TEN I think it was: http://www.icetcp.com/ I can't remember if I ever saw or used WordPerfect on Xenix. Maybe. I did want to see if I could find an old copy of Word for Xenix and run it under Xenix compatibility on a modern Linux, but I never could find it, and I think Linux's Xenix-compatibility functionality was quietly deprecated and dropped decades ago... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
