WordPerfect is still being sold. Lawyers used to love it, but I think they’ve mostly moved on to Word now. So who’s still buying new licenses for WP in 2024?
Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
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Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#12I changed the url from https://www.wsj.com/tech/bruce-bastian-wordperfect-lgbtq-act... because that one doesn't appear to have any paywall workaround. It does appear to be a better article though, so if someone finds a link that people can actually read, we can swap it back.
Here is a free link https://www.wsj.com/tech/bruce-bastian-wordperfect-lgbtq-act..., although I'm not sure how many clicks it will support, but here it is anyway.
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#13F10, F7
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#14Brings back so many memories.
WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Novell, and Wang Computers. So long, Mr Bastian, and thank you
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#15WordPerfect is still being sold. Lawyers used to love it, but I think they’ve mostly moved on to Word now. So who’s still buying new licenses for WP in 2024?
Some authors still used it too
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#16How else would I have shrunk 12 pages of high-school physics notes to fit on the allowed 3x5" (76x127mm) index card with 0.1 pt font printed in raster mode at 600 dpi on an HP LaserJet 4? WP 5.2 for DOS. IIRC, Word for Windows at the time was inflexible in granularity of TrueType font sizes.
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#17Brings back so many memories. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Novell, and Wang Computers. So long, Mr Bastian, and thank you
And Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc, dBase, and R:Base.
I met one of the Lotus cofounders on a group bicycling vacation tour in Europe. While legally blind at the time, he had a strategy for participating without crashing into anyone else.
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#18The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf
This one and Sid Meier's "Memoir!" are two of my favourite software dev stories. Both are quick easy reads / and from the same era... code-nostalgia and hard- business mixed together.
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#19The goto office package during MSDOS time period - First WordStar then Multimate and then WordPerfect. Famous for supporting every printer manufactured on planet Earth - 3 disks of printer drivers. Afaik it was written in assembler hence the tough time when they needed to move to more modern OS/2 with Presentation Manager and then later Windows 3.
You could download zillions more from their BBS, especially when new printers came out. That list was seemingly endless.
Also, when they supported video cards for print preview, similarly they had extensive support.
Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
#20So long, and thanks for Reveal Codes .
ALT F3, my dear incredibly powerful friend. There wasn't a jam you couldn't get out of once the magic codes behind the curtain were revealed.