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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: 5, Insightful) by Nuke on Monday October 29 2018, @07:53PM
The advantage of revealing codes (ie the markup) was to undo the mess that the user themselves might have created in the process of arranging the format and then perhaps re-arranging because the boss demanded a different layout. It was not to have fun examining the markup, as you seem to assume.
After using WP for a few years, my company changed to Word (it became an all MS shop) so I got a direct comparison. It seemed that Word, which could not reveal codes, just piled more and more markup on top of previous no-longer-wanted markup until the format of the document was in such an irretrievable mess that sometimes I just ditched the whole thing and started over again. What was that you said about wasting time? You knew that the markup in Word was like a hidden nest of snakes that you wanted to flush out but were prevented. Word looked prettier on the surface though.