Fun to see Ami Pro there. I never used it on Linux, but I used on Windows, and liked it a lot more than Word and WordPerfect. I still have old files in backups with the .SAM file extensions (after Samna, the original developer).
twoodfin · 2m ago
Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.
crmd · 15m ago
This article brings back fond memories of the UNIX workstation days. The first time I used Photoshop was on an SGI Indy in college. Remembering those times is like a peak into an alternate timeline where Microsoft Windows fizzled out instead of dominating the desktop market.
asveikau · 52m ago
In the late 90s WordPerfect was also ported to Linux and there was a distro centered around having it built in. I think it was Corel Linux.
A few years ago for I'm not sure what reason (boredom?) I found those old WordPerfect binaries and ran them on recent Linux. The tricky part is that it required libc5 support. But it worked.
quantummagic · 4m ago
There are several projects which have build scripts which patch the old WordPerfect binaries to run on modern distributions, for instance:
A few years ago for I'm not sure what reason (boredom?) I found those old WordPerfect binaries and ran them on recent Linux. The tricky part is that it required libc5 support. But it worked.
https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
Corel even released their own ARM based computer running Linux. The Netwinder.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3288
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50921/Corel-Netwinde...
A friend of mine got WordPerfect for SCO Unix running under Linux using the iBCS subsystem to run other x86 Unix binaries on Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta...