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Re: WordPervert (sorry WordPerfect) on NeXT hardware?

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From: Kristopher Magnusson
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 00:30
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Edwin S. Russell (esr@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU) wrote:

: Last December I called WP and asked for some information on WP for NeXTs
: and for AIX.  I needed the info quickly.  They promised to fax it to me 
: the NeXT :-) day.  Three weeks later (now January) I wrote them a letter to 
: ask what happened to the information .  A week after that they sent the info 
: on AIX but they said they had discontinued selling the NeXT version at the 
: end of December.

: It isn't the same company since Novell took over.  :-(
: --
: Ed Russell                            esr@slac.stanford.edu
: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center    Palo Alto/Menlo Park, California

Novell had nothing to do with the decision to drop the NEXTSTEP version 
of WP. The decision was all over and done with nearly a year before.

--
Kristopher Magnusson                kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please)
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From: kris@xmission.xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
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Subject: Re: WordPervert (sorry WordPerfect) on NeXT hardware?
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