Fwd: [Contributors] Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken

[Jim Cornette]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:20 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>>>Wordperfect 6 for Linux which was capable of running Windows 3.1 apps.
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>>>>believe the article is from 1997 timeframe though.
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>>>Is wordperfect not a text processor? How does it run an application?!
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>>The concept  was  to load wordperfect under Linux. Also WordPerfect was 
>>working on a program that was able to run Microsoft applications under 
>>Linux. MicroSoft bought WordPerfect out and closed development on the 
>>project and stripped out the code WordPerfect developed for the feat.
>>I was going to buy it when it came out. I believe there was a version of 
>>WordPerfect Linux that actually made it to the stores. I do not know 
>>whatever happened to the information on the web.
>>I'll try WordPerfect Linux to see what comes up.
>>What is a competent search engine? Google seems to be falling apart. It 
>>could not find the sun in midday now.
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>Word Perfect, when it was a standalone company, had a version of Word 
>Perfect (the software) for various Unix OS's, including Linux if I recall 
>correctly. Then Novell bought the company, and in the shakeup the product 
>fell behind MS Word/Office, although it became an Office suit in its own 
>right about that time. Under the original Caldera Linux product (rebranded 
>RH 3.25 or some such thing) I ran the Linux version of the office suite. 
>Corel bought the product, bringing more damage to the table as things got 
>moved yet again. As I recall, Corel was (and started?? did??) 
>compiling the whole office suite to run with Wine binaries, so in theory 
>you could either run under Windows or under Wine with the same binaries. 
>There was also some effort, as I recall, to port portions/the whole mess 
>to Java, but I think that was pretty still born.
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>FWIW, IMHO, Novell killed a great product and the last real agressive 
>customer sevice organization in consumer computing. The times I called WP 
>help, I may have waited online for some time, but the techs I spoke with 
>_knew_ the product, followed up, and spoke a brand of english I could 
>understand.  I was very sorry to see that service go away.
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Thanks for the info. Searches for info revealed timetables where the 
UNIX, VAX, Amiga, and other hardware types were mentioned. There were 
mentions of their JAVA attempts also in that timeframe. Your 
recollection helped me piece together some of the events.

I'll lookup Caldera Linux, which was found on some of the searches. 
(with many different search engines)

Jim