11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
6:37 p.m.
On 08/06/12 08:35, Mark Wickens wrote:
There are copies of WordPerfect for Solaris currently available on ebay UK.
I asked the question about WordPerfect for VMS on comp.os.vms - turns out there is a
company still selling it. However, when I mentioned I was a hobbyist the communications
went silent.
Mark.
Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/07/2012 11:37 PM, Boyanich, Alastair wrote:
There was wordperfect on VMS? Wow.
I used to use the shared version of it on SCO in the early 90's. I
didn't know there was a VMS version. That'd be interesting to see.
There was even a version for SunOS, with a fairly respectable WYSIWYG
GUI. I used that quite a bit Back In The Day(tm). I think I still have
it somewhere.
Those binaries will likely run under current Solaris on UltraSPARC;
I've been amazed at the degree of both architectural and ABI
compatibility between BSD-based SunOS 4 and SysV-based Solaris.
-Dave
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Quick update,
I received my WordPerfect for Unix package today.
Two very hefty manuals, an installation guide and three CDROMs.
Although the ebay advert mentions SUNOS/Solaris the following are also included:
HP-UX, RS/6000 AIX, SCO, UnixWare and AT&T GIS 3000, SGI, Siemens Nixdorf
Unfortunately no Digital Unix/tru64, which is what I was secretly hoping for :(
Mark.
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