On 7/6/24 14:34, Rich Shepard wrote:
I started using Satellite Software's WordPerfect, CalcPerfect, and
Draw in
1984 and visited their Orem, UT campus in 1985. Used and taugh others
to use
these products and used the linux version until 2000 when it died.
The author of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastien, just died
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/05/bruce-bastian-dead-wordperfect/>.
While the company made fatal business mistakes the quality of the
software
set a very high standard, far above Microsoft.
Rich
WP was the best word processor. I loved the feature that showed "reveal
codes". I still have a copy on my Win 2K virtual machine, but I don't
have a printer driver for it.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
