Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:09:59 -0600 Les Mikesell wrote:

I don't think they ever did a real native *nix verson - they had a slightly custom version of wine wrapped around the windows code.

Native WP for Unix existed back in the days of WP/DOS and the like.

WP ran on a huge number of platforms. I still have WP 4.1 for Amiga laying around here somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect

"While available in DOS and Microsoft Windows versions, its popularity was based in part on the fact that it was available for a wide variety of computers and operating systems, including Mac OS, Linux, the Apple IIe, a separate version for the Apple IIgs, most popular versions of Unix, VMS, Data General, System/370, AmigaOS, Atari ST, OS/2, and NeXTSTEP."