Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:26:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: zaphod@imailbox.com Cc: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help Message-ID: <349602F0.AB752703@xmission.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215092151.156B-100000@foo.bar.com>
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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Alex wrote:
% Either way, WP 5.1 was one of the best written programs I've ever used.
% It was blazingly fast (on a 486 none the less), so I wouldn't doubt that a
% lot of it was written in assembly. It even came with a little task
% swapper thing, that while not as powerful as DeskView, it certianly worked
% nicely and came with a nice bunch of integrated apps (calendar, mini
% database, spreadsheet, etc..). Those Mormons sure knew how to code DOS
% apps back then ;-)
They still do, but who wants them? :^)
jtkipp@students.wisc.edu replied:
> Wow! I never knew it had half of those features! I ran WP 5.1 on a
> 286/8/640k the only catch was if you typed to fast, the computer would get
> behind when you reached the end of a line... and saving and searching were
> painfully slow... I love WP 5.1, Is the source available? No, I thought
> not... Even a look-a-like with the same features for FreeBSD would be
> really cool.
There is a version of WP6.0 (The X/Motif version) for Caldera Linux;
will it run under emulation on FreeBSD? I think a trial version
comes on the OpenLinux Lite CD, which Caldera gives away like popcorn
at trade shows. I've got two or three, if you don't have one I can
send you one. ;^)
--
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