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From: law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: WordProcessors on Pyramids?
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.084621.7821@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Nov 90 08:46:21 GMT
References: <511@trux.UUCP>
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In <511@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:

>What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810?
>WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc...
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2
We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well.
Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to
port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know!


>car.
>-- 
>Christopher A. Rende           Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3)
>uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car   Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,UnixPC/3B1
>trux!car@uunet.uu.net          Minix 1.2,PC/XT,Mac+,TRS-80 Model I,1802 ELF
>trux!ramecs!car     "I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rende
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