Kids today and their fancy Office 365.
Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.
I had Corel WordPerfect for Linux.
You could modify the SGML codes to create documents that were compatible with all other versions of WordPerfect and MS Word, but he features that were supported in the document format, but not in the software.
For instance, I could change use more than the 16 colours that the Word for Windows UI allowed you to use, even though the displayed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor and printed correctly.
Hell yeah. I ran Corel Linux their last gasp at a pivot….
Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!
WordPerfect was a nightmare to use, and I’m very glad that it’s dead.
I was about to say. Wp5 on dos 5.0 with the blue screen.
I miss old-school WordPerfect. Our school was largely using Office 97, but one teacher preferred WP, and we had to use it in that particular class.
My biggest takeaway from it was that, contrary to what MS would have you believe, it is absolutely possible to put formatting options in logical places in menus. Everything about WP was just so intuitive.
Back in my day, and to this day, Microsoft offers such huge discounts in academia on licensing, and recruit so many students from university, I never saw anything but MS.
I’m glad we are at least in an age that there’s alternative to Microsoft in the free and open source space for individuals even when school goes down their path.
Fun fact, I read that GRRM still writes using a DOS copy of WordPerfect
Maybe he just hasn’t written anything since it was the standard.
Daaaaaamn
I am not quite that old, but I learned digital media creation in the Macromedia Suite… Dreamweaver, Flash… before Adobe bought them out.
Needs more toolbar buttons.
Man, reminds me of how we used AlphaSmart machines, which were like horrible little physical word processors. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Alphasmart_pro.jpg
