Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!ames!lll-lcc!lll-winken!gethen!isaac
From: isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Word on UNIX PC - comments ?
Summary: Some second hand information -- but usefull I think
Keywords: Microsoft Word UNIX PC comment experience MS-DOS
Message-ID: <908@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 05:14:10 GMT
References: <463@david.UUCP>
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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Hey, I didn't even know Word was available other than for DOS.  I have
no first hand experience with Word or with its main competitor,
WordPerfect, but if I were in your shoes I'd go with WordPerfect,
which is also available for the Unix PC.  Why:

From what I've read about Word, it's a typical MS product in that
it contains a lot of feature-patches and other adaptations.  Which
could get nasty when you're running it under the system other than
the one it was designed for.

People I know who've used both prefer WordPerfect.  Caveat:  my sample
is small and nonrandom.

WordPerfect Inc. probably is better at writing OS-independent programs
especially programs for multitaslking systems.  The first version
of WordPerfect ran on a Data General machine!  I won't say *anything*
about MS in this context.