On 2011-03-11 15:47, Dwayne Reid wrote:
> At 02:11 PM 3/4/2011, Joe Koberg wrote:
>
>> Right.... The whole point is that if you use a proprietary VCS, you
>> might tend to have the vendor disappear, just like WordPerfect did.
> <<http://www.corel.com/>www.corel<http://www.corel.com/>.com>
>
>
>> That was the whole point of mentioning WordPerfect.
> I've been watching the mention of WordPerfect with some amusement.
>
> We've been using WordPerfect from 1984 until present.  Of course, now
> its called whatever Corel calls it (Corel Office).  But it still
> reads and writes the files created by the earliest WordPerfect program.
>
> dwayne
>
>

Right, and I actually keep a copy of WP 2000 for Windows around,=20
primarily to open the odd WP file I run across.  Come to think of it, I=20
actually have WP5.1 ready to run from a network share as well......  =20
....... Annnnnd it still runs! (under WinXP SP3 on an AMD Phenom=20
processor)  http://www.jkk.us.s3.amazonaws.com/WP51.PNG

I guess I chose a bad example in this case!

Joe

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