Subject: Re: Wordperfect on NetBSD/mac68k
To: None <ulrich.hausmann@a2e.hp.shuttle.de>
From: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/29/1998 13:01:53
At 10:31 AM +0100 10/29/98, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>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, s=E5 l=E5ter Corel meddela att i november kan=
 anv=E4ndare av
>> >Linux, ladda ner WordPerfect 8 Personal Edition utan kostand fr=E5n webb=
en.
>> >WP =E4r 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 f=F6r 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

i really don't know. i doubt it. probably because they don't want to
provide support for it.

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