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

[Doug Moen]

I also used to work for MKS, during 1995-1999. Software development in C, working on their Build Integrity product.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 4:04 PM, Ron Singh wrote:
> 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.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Ron S.
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> 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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