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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: <1991May9.164525.8188@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 9 May 91 16:45:25 GMT
References: <1991May6.211034.20182@software.org> <1991May7.025043.13220@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991May07.134546.6630@actrix.gen.nz> <1991May9.001022.22275@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991May9.002946.2904@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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In article <1991May9.002946.2904@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) writes:
>vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>>I just called WordPerfect.  They're shipping the April Upgrade.  They're
>>NOT quitting the Atari market, at least not in the U.S.
>
>It's still that brain-damaged 4.1, isn't it?  WordPerfect 5.0 was a
>quantum leap forward for them.  As far as I'm concerned, anything prior
>to that is not fully usable.

Unfortunately, yes.  They say they're real busy porting 5.0 to lots of
platforms (5 going so far).  I think they must be doing something wrong
if porting is so expensive.  I would be trying to get 5.1 going on all
platforms, and would have a "Tiger Team" focusing on portability.  They
must have machine-specific stuff all tangled up with stuff that ought not
to be machine specific.
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