Re: [TCLUG:2085] WordPerfect 8

[Christopher Reid Palmer <jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:

> Hmmph.. I'd _much_ rather have a console version of WP51 for Linux than
> the beast of WP7...  I hope WP8 is better, otherwise I'll be stuck using
> either StarOffice 5.0 and LyX, I think..  Probably LyX..  or maybe
> HTML..

TeX and HTML...say, are those open standards? Is LyX free? Oh yeah,
*that* must be why I use them! :)

> Is it too much to ask to get a word processor on Linux that doesn't
> crash?  And one that doesn't lag when you type in the letters (like
> WP7)?

It's too much to ask that on *any* platform. You must have forgotten my
universal law of computing:

Palmer's Law. Word processors will bloat and become morbidly obese at
twice the rate that CPUs increase in speed (as per Moore's Law).

It's true, it's true, word processors are so lame.

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