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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WordPerfect compatibility
Message-ID: <857@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 14:30:39 GMT
References: <2651@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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in article <2651@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, fink@mist.cs.orst.edu (Paul Fink) says:
> Xref: aucs comp.sys.ibm.pc:8552 comp.sys.amiga:10240 comp.sys.mac:9170
> 
> I'm not sure why all this PC and amiga stuff is being posted here.
> As for the Macintosh world, Word Perfect is the most worthless
> Program for the Mac. It belongs to the MS-DOS world and that is
> where it should stay!
> Paul Fink

I don't entirely agree. We have a large number of users using
WordPerfect on PCs, making it hard to convince people to adopt
Macintoshes. If a file compatible wordprocessor exists for the
Mac, it will make it much easier to convince departments to buy
Macs and still be able to pass files back and forth with other
departments. I have already recommended to a department here
currently considering a Mac purchase to buy WordPerfect, strictly
to overcome that enigma "its not PC compatible." Since then I've
had a chance to try out WordPerfect for the Mac. The version I have
is betaware and is really slow and buggy. It has a long way to go
before I'd recommend it again...

 
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Peter Steele Acadia Univ. Wolfville NS Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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