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I stopped using Word Perfect at version 8 on Win 9x. It was a fucking shit show. Used 5.1 on DOS immensely. 5.1 was great for its time.

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Fun fact: WordPerfect was written in assembler for (I think) the Data General minicomputer. Every other version was cross-assembled to the given platform.

This was told to me by Alan Ashton, the CEO and founder of WordPerfect, in around 1986. I instantly thought that their days were numbered.

We can't have a discussion about the history of WordPerfect without mentioning this book: https://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml

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