Word Perfect

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was a VAX
> sysadmin in my early career, by then, VAXen were mainly servers, not
> workstations any more. I did briefly try DECwrite under DECwindows on
> a VAXstation. It was pretty awful, but for the time, considering, it
> was impressive.
>
>
At a DEC shop I used to work in (early 1990s -- maybe 1991 or 1992) we
tested DECwrite on Ultrix stations, and that particular version, if I
recall, was an early version of FrameMaker that DEC had licensed. By the
time it had filtered to us, there was a really good version of Frame
shipping for Windows, and the DECwrite version was just not worth using by
comparison.

That Ultrix station was my first experience with Unix, and we had ordered
the workstation without support (meaning I got to plug in the video card
myself rather than having our onsite DEC guy do it). They also sent printed
versions of the man pages, nicely formatted and 3-hole-punched. That
accounted for the vast majority of the shipping cartons. :-)

We directly compared FrameMaker, Interleaf, and DECwrite. When it came down
to it, FrameMaker easily won the comparison despite DEC providing DECwrite
licenses "free" as a DEC shop. (Interleaf had an impressive feature set but
also had an impressively expensive license arrangement.)

Sorry to drag this thread so far OT....

I was around several hardcore WordPerfect users but only briefly used the
(poorly ported and never widely used) Mac version.
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