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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
Message-ID: <1143@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 13 Jul 89 05:50:49 GMT
References: <4856@macom1.UUCP> <248@arnor.UUCP> <1044@kuling.UUCP> <8161@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <330@umabco.UUCP> <228@psgdc>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <228@psgdc> rg@psgdc.UUCP (Dick Gill) writes:

>We are dealers for the Unix version of Word Perfect; we have
>installations on NCR Towers, and have just begun to offer the
>product on the IBM-RT.

>.....  Of course, noone should expect that the Unix
>implementation will deliver the same responsiveness, color and
>graphics capabilities as Word Perfect on a PC; maybe in the
>future, but certainly not now!

Why not? The reason can't be that no fast UNIX workstations
with enough color-graphics capabilities exist...

And the reason can't certainly be that MS-DOS is just a better
OS than UNIX... :-)

Anyway, WP is one of the first succesfull PC packages that has made
the step to UNIX. Congratulations. Who follows?

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