[rescue] WordPerfect for Unix (was: SMC blows...)

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:25:22PM -0500, Eric Webb wrote:
> On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:33 pm, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 February 2003 7:15 pm, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > Thus going back to the original question of whether or not a
> > > curses-mode version of WordPerfect (like WordPerfect for DOS) exists
> > > for Unix.
> >
> > Yes it does exist. It also exists for VMS, and possibly a number of
> > other proprietry oses. And it did a pretty good job of working on
> > terminals ... in fact WordPerfect was so good on a Wyse160 that I
> > preferred it to a PC.
> 
> I thought WP was recompiled as Java or something to make it cross-platform?

You can't just recompile as Java.  You have to completely rewrite.
Which they were doing, and seemed to have it mostly done, based on the
demo.  But they scratched the project