Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!mdf
From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Looking for a Xenix version of WordPerfect.
Message-ID: <3245@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 87 01:21:16 GMT
References: <234@dalcsug.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
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In <234@dalcsug.UUCP> lalonde@dalcsug.UUCP (Paul Lalonde) writes:
>	I'm looking for a Xenix version of WordPerfect, does anyone know
>of such a beast?  I'm running Tandy's flavour of Microsoft Xenix 2.0.
>on a Tandy 3000hd.  

WordPerfect Corporation is developing a XENIX version, but it is not an
announced product.  The guy I spoke to over there said it was not a
high priority.  They want to go after the "more popular" environments
first.  I ask you, are there more systems running XENIX, or more NCR
Towers.  Sounds like politics to me, or maybe NCR paid for some of the
development.

One problem I can see in porting WP to UNIX/XENIX is that they rely on
10 function keys with shifted, control, and alt variants.  99% of the
terminals out there just can't do it.  It'll be interesting to see how
they get around this...

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