david@david.UUCP (David A. Roth) (05/09/88)
I am thinking of buying MS Word for the UNIX PC for my wife to use. I know nothing about MS Word. Does anyone have any experiences using MS Word on the UNIX PC that used it on MS-DOS systems? Are there any features missing or problems with what printers it will work with. How much disk space is required to run it? Any comments would be helpful. Please reply by e-mail since I don't currently get this newsgroup. Thanks in advance. David ihnp4!david!david
isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (05/14/88)
Hey, I didn't even know Word was available other than for DOS. I have no first hand experience with Word or with its main competitor, WordPerfect, but if I were in your shoes I'd go with WordPerfect, which is also available for the Unix PC. Why: From what I've read about Word, it's a typical MS product in that it contains a lot of feature-patches and other adaptations. Which could get nasty when you're running it under the system other than the one it was designed for. People I know who've used both prefer WordPerfect. Caveat: my sample is small and nonrandom. WordPerfect Inc. probably is better at writing OS-independent programs especially programs for multitaslking systems. The first version of WordPerfect ran on a Data General machine! I won't say *anything* about MS in this context.