romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) (04/11/89)
I am about to write a letter to WordPerfect asking them to reconsider their decision to stop development for the Atari ST. I would encourage all registered users to do the same. If you aren't so inclined, perhaps you could e-mail me your name and the serial number of your WP. I will compile these and append these to the letter. Please, use the e-mail address listed below as a number of us at the museum share the account from which this was posted. I would hate to be left at vers 4.1 when the rest of the world is getting the wonderful 5.0 code. Thanks, Pavneet Arora ...!utgpu!rom!pavneet Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 (416) 586-5626
romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) (04/11/89)
Sorry, in my earlier posting I didn't give the name of the person to write to. Try Alan Ashton President WordPerfect Corp. 1555 N. Technology Way Orem, Utah 84057 advTHANKSvance Pavneet Arora ...!utgpu!rom!pavneet Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 (416) 586-5626
saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (04/12/89)
The article this is a follow-up to asks people to request that WordPerfect
continue Atari support. I think that's what they want to do already. There
is a WordPerfect display in the Atari booth at the present Comdex. The
WP representative seems enthusiastic. If there are ever enough TOS machines
out there to make it an attractive market, I suspect WP will be back fast.
In particular, I think they realize that slow sales are due to the small user
base and intense competition, rather than theft of software.
An aside: when I looked, WP seemed to have some problems running in the
configuration displayed (latest TOS 1.4, which people seemed to believe was
the production version; MEGA 4). If it's running smoothly on Thursday, that
should be evidence of continuing support.
Steve J.