Subject: Re: Wordperfect on NetBSD/mac68k
To: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
From: Ulrich Hausmann <ulrich.hausmann@a2e.hp.shuttle.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/29/1998 10:31:15
Armen Babikyan wrote:
>
> At 6:22 AM +0000 10/27/98, Mattias Andersson wrote:
> >On an e-maillist I found the following:
> >"I slaget om Linux, så låter Corel meddela att i november kan användare av
> >Linux, ladda ner WordPerfect 8 Personal Edition utan kostand från webben.
> >WP är ett officeprogram med ordbehandling och kalkyl m.m.
> >http://www.corel.com/news/1998/october/linux.htm"
> >
> >In english this means that Corel ships its office offering for Linux
> >in november for free!
> >My wuestion is if it's possible to compile a version för NetBSD?
> >Wouldn't that be neat to have an office box on old mac IIs!?
> >
>
> no, unfortunately.
But, would it run on Linux/m68k machines then (altthough the implementation of
Linux to 68k based Macs, apparently, is definitely poor)? Or would it be
limited to Intel based machines?
Best regards, Ulrich