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- Cool!by pmkary
- how complicated would a port to linux be ?by BaudouinVH
- Should also add disk space to the requirement list.
People will be shocked when they realize word didn’t require gigabytes…
by BobbyTables2 - WinWord 2 or maybe 6 had everything I ever needed.by bananaboy
- A screenshot or two would have been niceby ulfw
- Tried to build it but it references a `cmake/GenerateMenuHelpHeader.cmake` that seems to be absent from the repository?by spider-mario
- If you need something much easier then you can run Word 2.0 (well any Windows 3.0+ 16bit app) easily on x64 Windows 10/11 https://files.catbox.moe/dy4bqy.png
All you need is this https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
by haunter - Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs.
In fact, I'd love to see both Word and Excel '98 on one of my workstations. IMHO things went South after that.
I had to use Windows and Office off and on with clients up to 2010 and I'm sure that Excel provided some important edge-case functionality after '98, but for me the UI went steadily to sh*t.
by acmdas