kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) (08/01/89)
I have heard that WordPerfect runs on Suns and would like to know if Microsoft has any plans for porting Word to Suns. If so, would it be more Mac-like or PC-ish?
jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) (08/02/89)
You can run Word on a Sun 386i as a virtual DOS machine. And knowing the Sun
graphics interface I would probably expect it to be more Mac-ish if a port is
done. If you want DOS compatability, get a Sun 386i or put an IPC (PC/AT VME
board) in it. I don't expect MS to play ball with Sun. MS did a botched up
enough job with Xenix until SCO took the ball and now has been making slam
dunks ever since. MS even owns stock in SCO from what I have heard.
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