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From: wlyle@sjuphil.uucp (Wayne Lyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: WordProcessors on Pyramids?
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.185213.1830@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 90 18:52:13 GMT
References: <511@trux.UUCP> <1990Nov6.084621.7821@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Reply-To: wlyle@sjuphil.UUCP (Wayne Lyle)
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In article <1990Nov6.084621.7821@ioe.lon.ac.uk> law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) writes:
>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!
>

	We run WordPerfect 4.2 on a couple of Pyramid 9825.  We pretty much
use them exclusively for that task.  About 50 users per system (a law firm)
which seems to keep them quite busy.  At this time there is no definite plans
to see WordPerfect 5.0 or better on this version of the Pyramid.  However
there is some wheeling and dealing to make a port available.  It seems all
they have to do is come up with an agreeable cost for Pyramid to pay.  If this
doesn't come to be, from what I can best see is that we would have to wait
until the next generation MIS server (with a merchant chip set) that supports
System V Rel 4. so it is available.  If that turns out to be the case, I can
bet that there will be a couple of pyramids for sale at the firm I work at.

	As for using WordPerfect 4.2 on them, it works  pretty good, there are
some obvious problems with the way it handles complex documents (standard
legal stuff) but by far nothing we haven't worked around.

	I hope that someone from Pyramid see this, and helps make 5.0 a
reality for our system.


Wayne J. Lyle
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman
Philadelphia, PA 19109
(215) 875-8583

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Wayne J. Lyle
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman
Philadelphia, PA 19109
(215) 875-8583