car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) (11/02/90)
What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810? WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc... car. -- Christopher A. Rende Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3) uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,UnixPC/3B1 trux!car@uunet.uu.net Minix 1.2,PC/XT,Mac+,TRS-80 Model I,1802 ELF trux!ramecs!car "I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rende
law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) (11/06/90)
In <511@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810? >WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc... ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2 We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well. Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know! >car. >-- >Christopher A. Rende Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3) >uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,UnixPC/3B1 >trux!car@uunet.uu.net Minix 1.2,PC/XT,Mac+,TRS-80 Model I,1802 ELF >trux!ramecs!car "I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rende -- JANET: law@uk.ac.lon.ioe | Lindsay Wakeman EARN/BITNET: law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet | Institute of Education INTERNET:law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 20 Bedford Way London WC1H OAL UUCP: !mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!law | VOICE +44 71 636 1500 ext.512
aleiste@APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL (Antoinette Leister ASQNC-TAB-IS 5357) (11/08/90)
Responding to Lindsay Wakeman's prompt for more info on WordPerfect... > > >What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810? > >WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc... > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2 > We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well. > Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to > port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know! > ----- We inquired about the chances of obtaining future releases beyond WordPerfect 4.2 for Pyramid hosts. The response from WordPerfect Corporation was that the Pyramid client base is not large enough at this time to warrant the company working on any upgrade. Meanwhile, our user community, who use PC's and also a Pyramid, is already processing with WordPerfect 5.1 at the PC level. Antoinette Leister | Information Systems Command aleiste@apg.army.mil | Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
ras@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Ralph A. Shaw) (11/09/90)
In article <9011071618.aa04182@APG-9.APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL> aleiste@APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL (Antoinette Leister ASQNC-TAB-IS 5357) writes: > >Responding to Lindsay Wakeman's prompt for more info on WordPerfect... >> >What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810? >> >WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc... >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2 >> We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well. >> Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to >> port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know! >> > We inquired about the chances of obtaining future releases beyond >WordPerfect 4.2 for Pyramid hosts. The response from WordPerfect >Corporation was that the Pyramid client base is not large enough at >this time to warrant the company working on any upgrade. Meanwhile, >our user community, who use PC's and also a Pyramid, is already >processing with WordPerfect 5.1 at the PC level. We went through a similar experience here last summer, where we were looking to move all our users to WordPerfect on the PC's, UNIX, and VMS machines, and found out: 5.1 (tables, equations, graphics) available on DOS, SCO Xenix 5.0 (simple tables) is (or shortly will be) on VMS 4.2 (no tables, equations, graphics, large doc features) on UNIX - 5.0 planned late in '91 for Sun4/SPARC - 5.0 not planned for other platforms Other (dumb terminal) word processors that may be worth looking at that are available on Pyramids and other UNIX platforms are: CrystalWriter - (no info) WordMARC - we have an old version, didn't pay for Composer+ Q-One/Q-Office - had problems years ago, but they may have improved Ideally, we would want it to run on all platforms (Sun3, Sun4, VAX UNIX, VMS, HP, SGI, and DOS) and be able to import and export files and able to import and export files with troff, Interleaf, and Mac's with troff, Interleaf, and Mac's. Naturally, we haven't found it yet.
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (11/11/90)
In a recent article ras@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Ralph A. Shaw) wrote on WordPerfect: > 5.1 (tables, equations, graphics) available on DOS, SCO Xenix > 5.0 (simple tables) is (or shortly will be) on VMS > 4.2 (no tables, equations, graphics, large doc features) on UNIX > - 5.0 planned late in '91 for Sun4/SPARC > - 5.0 not planned for other platforms WP 5.0 for UNIX has been available for the various 386 UNIX systems for quite some time, and for the NCR Tower. WP 5.0 was recently announced for Sun SPARC systems (but not for other SPARC systems). WordPerfect Corp. will announce 5.0 for a couple of other platforms early next year. An 88open BCS version is one of the first ones. As far as I know, there aren't as of yet any plans for a port of WP 5.0 to Pyramid's. But things may change. A version that runs under OSF/Motif is in the works. This is supposedly a Motif-ied version of WP for Windows. -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se Jakobsberg, Sweden | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com Any opinions expressed herein definitely belongs to me and not to my employer.
wlyle@sjuphil.uucp (Wayne Lyle) (11/12/90)
In article <1990Nov6.084621.7821@ioe.lon.ac.uk> law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) writes: >In <511@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: > >>What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810? >>WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc... >^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2 >We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well. >Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to >port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know! > We run WordPerfect 4.2 on a couple of Pyramid 9825. We pretty much use them exclusively for that task. About 50 users per system (a law firm) which seems to keep them quite busy. At this time there is no definite plans to see WordPerfect 5.0 or better on this version of the Pyramid. However there is some wheeling and dealing to make a port available. It seems all they have to do is come up with an agreeable cost for Pyramid to pay. If this doesn't come to be, from what I can best see is that we would have to wait until the next generation MIS server (with a merchant chip set) that supports System V Rel 4. so it is available. If that turns out to be the case, I can bet that there will be a couple of pyramids for sale at the firm I work at. As for using WordPerfect 4.2 on them, it works pretty good, there are some obvious problems with the way it handles complex documents (standard legal stuff) but by far nothing we haven't worked around. I hope that someone from Pyramid see this, and helps make 5.0 a reality for our system. Wayne J. Lyle Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman Philadelphia, PA 19109 (215) 875-8583 /**********************************************************************\ /* DISCLAIMER: I am using this site (sjuphil) as my only link to the *| /* net. Any statements made here are not those of my *| /* employer or my alma mater. *| /**********************************************************************/ -- Wayne J. Lyle Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman Philadelphia, PA 19109 (215) 875-8583