From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 15 20:20:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA20090 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA20020 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from xmission.com [199.104.124.49] by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xhoU4-0002v9-00; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:19:52 -0700 Message-ID: <349602F0.AB752703@xmission.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:26:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zaphod@imailbox.com CC: Alex , Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com