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High Plains Thumper schreef:
Actually, seven years ago, StarOffice was owned by Star Division,not Sun, and it was at version 5.x. Back then, they still had a native OS-2 version of which I have the CD I purchased lying right next beside me (not for the software, because OS-2 is -- alas! -- no longer a mainstream contender in the OS arena, but for the amazing collection of typefaces that came with it).
StarOffice version 5 was IIRC the first version (or was that the hardly missed because so buggy version 4?) that presented itself as a monolithic application. Prior versions had distinctly separate (but very well integrated) modules for wordprocessing, spreadsheeting and such, which, in my opinion, was a much better way of doing things. Obviously my opinion was not that of the makers of StarOffice, because it still is a monolithic beast.
And at that time WordPerfect 8 for Linux was released as well. Another program I still have in the boxed version, collecting dust on the shelf simply because it's just too much hbuttle to hunt down the antique libraries needed to get it going on a modern Linux distribution. Note however that I still think WP8 is the best wordprocessor ever made by Man. WP8 could do things with paper and ink that OOo 2 still cannot do today. Would you believe that I never actually bought that copy, but that it was sent to me for free by someone who had no use for it anymore?
wd About the only thing that keeps me from using Open Office for now are 2 defective CD units on my 1,700 MHz Pentium. My Verbatim CD-R-W unit now doesn't...
Oh, let's not forget the FrameMaker beta that floated on the Net for some time. If you happen to have a copy archived away somewhere, you can still find the instructions to overcome the time limitations on the Net.
And whatever happened to Applix Office? My first bought Linux distribution was S.u.S.E. (note the periods! You'd have to be from the last century to remember them) Office Suite 99, basically S.u.S.E. 5.3 + Applixware 4.4.1, a good office suite, provided you didn't want to print at over 300 dpi (due to the crappy fontengine that came with it).
Ahhh, memories...
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Karel "de Jazz" Jansens
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