[kwlug-disc] [BCLUG] WordPerfect 7 for UNIX, running perfectly happily in a Linux terminal in 2022

[Cedric Puddy]

Hi Chris and Znoteer,

Thanks for bringing up some good memories!

Daaaaaamn.  I love it.  When I was at MKS, and in school, I would often be
in the office late doing school work (had a sweet NCD X-term setup at my
desk! Big HP 4Si laser printers just sitting there!  A 64 kbit Internet
connection from UUnet!), primarily running WorldPerfect for Unix on our
SunOS host ("giga", I believe because it had a gig of ram).

I figure I had a blackbelt in WordPerfect at the time (I recall doing
complex formulas and such, etc), but when I fired it up again years later,
I found that it was almost nothing like riding a bike or falling off a
log.  I don't know about anyone else, but that muscle memory seems to have
consisted entirely of conscript labour, since those neurons dropped shovels
& headed for the hills at the first opportunity.

 Best Regards,
-Cedric

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 05:05, Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing that... the book "Almost Perfect" that was linked
> from the article is also pretty fascinating:
>
>         http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml
>
> - Chris
>
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