chris@gistdev.gist.com (Chris LaReau) (03/24/90)
I've seen this asked before, but I didn't see any replies. A friend of mine is working on a deal to outfit a customer with a bunch of 386's running some flavor (to be determined) of unix. It can't be a deal unless he can get a big-name word processor that will run (multi user over dumb terminals) on the box. I just read the ad in the April byte about MS Word 5.0 for SCO Unix, so I know that something exists (or will RSN :-); are there any others he should look into? Information about anything that works on any variety of 386 unix would be most welcome. Also, my friend wants the boxes (25 MHz 386's) to run 25 or so word processing sessions at once (over smart serial cards). I do development, and a 25 MHz 386 isn't enough power for *one* of me compiling something, but these people are just going to be typing on a word processor. Is he way off base in thinking that the machine will handle such a user load (with appropriate memory, etc)? Thanks for your attention. I will post a summary to the net if anyone is sufficiently interested. -- ------------ Chris LaReau, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 chris@gistdev.gist.com
gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) (04/14/90)
There is a version of WordPerfect 4.2 available for SCO Xenix 386, and
another for ISC 386/ix and MicroPorts' 386 port. I've used it under
Xenix and 386/ix, and it works fine.
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Gary Heston { uunet!sci34hub!gary } System Mismanager
SCI Technology, Inc. OEM Products Department (i.e., computers)
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