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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect update - STe support
Message-ID: <1991May9.001022.22275@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 9 May 91 00:10:22 GMT
References: <1991May6.211034.20182@software.org> <1991May7.025043.13220@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991May07.134546.6630@actrix.gen.nz>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991May07.134546.6630@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <1991May7.025043.13220@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) writes:
>> larock@software.software.org (Curt Larock) writes:
>> >I just got the latest WordPerfect update, dated April 18, 1991.
>> >According to the release notes WP now supports the STe (TT support
>> >was in the December release).  There are also some minor bug fixes.
>> 
>> Do they still have no plans to port 5.0 (or 5.1)?  Until they do, I'll
>> happily use MS Word under Spectre GCR.  I bought a copy of WP for Atari,
>> WP 5.1 for DOS, and MS Word for Mac.  I just use the one that works well.
>
>Well from what I have just read in Znet or was it ST-Report, that
>WordPerfect has droped Atari all together...
>There was some thing about the Germans did not want a USA product
>bundled with Atari computers,(about 10,000 units),
>they wanted a German product instead..
>WordPerfect did not like this, and decided that they could no longer
>afford to support the Atari Version..
>
>Correct me if I'am wrong, but this is the way I read it..
>-- 
>Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...

I just called WordPerfect.  They're shipping the April Upgrade.  They're
NOT quitting the Atari market, at least not in the U.S.

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