A recent Guardian article encouraging writers to abandon MS Word included a comment from a reader that read:
With 70+ books under my belt, I'm still using WordPerfect 5.1. Luckily there's an excellent website offering free software to enable one to use this DOS software with Windows 10: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/
If you follow that link you'll find a treasure trove of tools and advice that will help you run WordPerfect 5.1 on any Windows system, as well as Macs and Linux boxes. The author does note that it's much easier on 32 bit systems than 64 bit, but it can be done on either. There's even advice on making printers work.
(Of late I've been using the generally excellent FocusWriter full screen editor for distraction free writing, but if I can get WP 5.1 working....) (And, just for the record, Corel still sells Wordperfect Office.)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @02:10PM (1 child)
What does that have anything to do with the code quality? Does someone's religion affect their ability to program? If it were Rastafarians writing the software, you could at least accuse them of coding under the influence.
Or is it just a hate-on-Utah thing? Does "designed by Mormons" somehow work better as a pejorative than "designed by Catholics", or, perhaps, "designed by Lutherans"? If so, why?
Your logical fallacy is ad-hominem. [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday October 29 2018, @06:39PM
Well if it were coded by Mermen, it would be rather soggy. And nothing to say about the denigration of lawyers? Provo is a nice town, from what I hear, but the way WordPerfect was sold off to Novell, and then to Corel, where it was left to die, does resemble an awful lot of business that comes out of the Beehive State, aimed at Gentiles. Nice that the Latter Day Snaints have finally apologized for all the racism [huffingtonpost.com], though.