Talking about WP brings back memories of working in the Scientific Computing Center at Tektronix in the late 80's. Tektronix was not a M$ house so those folks with PC's probably used WP (or whatever word processing worked on Banyan). In the SCC we were 100% UNIX, what documentation we wrote was probably either TeX or raw troff. Later on we started using Interleaf, which was an amazing tool (compared to writing raw troff). As a side note, we provided the operating system (BSD 4.3) and applications for our VAX users. Compiling TeX from source was quite the adventure, considering it was written by a mathematician. And of course there was debugging the Postscript printer drivers for troff. At one point I got to play with an actual type setting system in the printing department while debugging troff code.
On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 4:11 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 7/6/24 14:34, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I started using Satellite Software's WordPerfect, CalcPerfect, and > > Draw in > > 1984 and visited their Orem, UT campus in 1985. Used and taugh others > > to use > > these products and used the linux version until 2000 when it died. > > > > The author of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastien, just died > > < > https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/05/bruce-bastian-dead-wordperfect/>. > > > > > > > While the company made fatal business mistakes the quality of the > > software > > set a very high standard, far above Microsoft. > > > > Rich > > WP was the best word processor. I loved the feature that showed "reveal > codes". I still have a copy on my Win 2K virtual machine, but I don't > have a printer driver for it. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens >
