![]() His superb articles make for very interesting reading in our modern age of stagnant innovation. Oh! that's Edward Mendelson's website! He's reviewed almost every word processor released to market, having been a contributing editor of PC Magazine beginning in 1985. This was never finished, as Corel licensed Microsoft Visual BASIC for Applications – and one of Microsoft's conditions was killing all Linux products, including Corel LinuxOS and the office programs. Note: Corel later tried to port the entire Windows WordPerfect Office suite (adding Quattro Pro, Paradox, Presentations – formerly DrawPerfect – etc.) to Linux using WINE. There was also a later 8.1 version, which was only available commercially. This is an ideal candidate for packaging in some containerised format, such as an AppImage, Snap or Flatpak, for someone who has the skills. There are some instructions for running it on a more recent distro, too: Corel did offer an ARM-based desktop computer, the netWinder, so there's a good chance there was an internal ARM port but AFAIK it was never released. There is no prospect of porting it to ARM or anything. It is not FOSS, merely closed-source freeware. They just ported the native xNix version to Linux. There were both text-mode and later GUI-based Unix versions of WordPerfect for SCO Xenix and other x86 commercial xNix OSes - I supported WP5.1 on Xenix for one customer in the 1980s. ![]() It was written for Data General minicomputers and later ported to DOS, OS/2, classic MacOS, AmigaOS etc. Back around the time of Corel LinuxOS, Corel did a native version of WordPerfect for Linux.Ĭontext: WordPerfect is not originally a Windows app.
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