On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:08:49 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2016-04-06 19:33, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:15:52 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2016-04-06 17:37, Ken Blake wrote:

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:55:41 -0000 (UTC), Dave C

It's always a mystery to me how Microsoft can come in late and usurp
existing applications, eventually putting them out of business.


WordPerfect 6.0 was a very buggy release, and it was then that many
people started switching to Microsoft Word.

It worked just fine up to Win6.11. It was Win6.21 that made it buggy.
6.21 made a lot of software buggy as I recall.



Win6.11???? Win6.21???? Exactly what do you mean by those names?

Sorry, 2.1, 2.11. Brain fart.


I suspected something like this, but I wasn't sure what.

I ran 2.0 very slightly, but it ran under DOS. So WordPerfect didn't
run under 2.x, it ran next to it. So why would it have made
WordPerfect buggy? If it did, I don't remember it.



Then there was the 3.x series, which also
broke miscellaneous software.


I ran all of those, but don't remember it breaking anything.


I skipped 95/95/ME,


You mean 95/*98*/Me, I assume. As did I.


used OS/2, which ran Win 3.1 just fine, better than


I never ran OS/2


DOS, in fact. That was on the first machine I built, er, I mean
assembled. But IBM dropped OS/2, so I used W2000 on the next machine,
and dabbled in Linux. Bought a Mac Powerbook around that time, too, but
that was a mistake.


I ran Windows 2000, but never ran Linux or Macintosh anything.


Breaking software seems to be a habit with MS. OTOH, PMView, which was
written for OS/2, then ported to Windows and upgraded, still works just
lovely on W7/Home and W8.1/64 bit.

Have a good day,


You too.