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

[Ron Singh]

What I really like about your comment is the mention of MKS(Mortice Kern
Systems). I worked with them providing hardware to an Alex, Randall, Ruth
and Trevor. This was back in the early and mid-80s when MKS was doing their
thing out of a house on Erb Street.

Ahh yeah, nostalgic for them days -- never got into WP as I was a Wordstar
guy(CP/M on Ferguson Bigboard II and an Apples ][ with MS Z80 Softcard),
but my wife was a speed demon on WP, especially v4.x. I will let her know
about the WP deb so she can revisit it on her laptop.

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 2:41 PM Cedric Puddy <cedric at ccjclearline.com>
wrote:

> 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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