Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tgingric From: tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: WordPerfect (was Re: X11 for the NeXTstation) Message-ID: <1991Jan16.201358.4201@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 16 Jan 91 20:13:58 GMT References: <1991Jan16.185529.17040@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: right.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu In article <1991Jan16.185529.17040@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >In article shawn@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Shawn Broderick) writes: >>Is Word Perfect shipping yet? >>Having the world's most popular word processor on >>the NeXT will make a lot of people happy. > >Don't count on it. WordPerfect on the Macintosh is absolute trash; >who knows how useful the NeXT version will be? > Actually, the NeXT version of WordPerfect is NOTHING like the Macintosh version. When WP wrote Mac-WP they basically brought PC-WP over to the Mac and FORGOT to "buy-in" to the Macintosh philosophy. Ashton-Tate did this with dBase Mac too -- you got to run a DOS-like application on your Mac -- what a great deal!! I've seen WordPerfect for the NeXT (at least a Beta version) and I would compare it's operation/interface to Word-for-Windows rather than WP. It's a graphical WYSIWYG word-processing/DTP environment and is pretty slick for a product from WordPerfect Corp. WordPerfect appears to have "bought-in" to the NeXT way of doing business. Tyler PS: I know WordPerfect is not, but please don't cast disparagement on a product which you haven't seen yet.