WordProcessors on Pyramids?

[Ralph A. Shaw]

In article <9011071618.aa04182 at APG-9.APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL>
  aleiste at APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL (Antoinette Leister ASQNC-TAB-IS 5357) writes:
>
>Responding to Lindsay Wakeman's prompt for more info on WordPerfect...

>> >What "popular" word processors have been ported to run on a Pyramid 9810?
>> >WordPerfect, WordStar, MicroSoft Word, etc...
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> Yes, certainly WordPerfect - but only (as far as we know..?) Version 4.2
>> We recently ran a trial copy of this and it seemed to work quite well.
>> Unfortunately most PC users are used to 5.1. We are unaware of plans to
>> port 5.1, but if anyone else knows more - please let me know!
>> 
>  We inquired about the chances of obtaining future releases beyond
>WordPerfect 4.2 for Pyramid hosts.  The response from WordPerfect
>Corporation was that the Pyramid client base is not large enough at
>this time to warrant the company working on any upgrade.  Meanwhile,
>our user community, who use PC's and also a Pyramid, is already
>processing with WordPerfect 5.1 at the PC level.

We went through a similar experience here last summer, where we were
looking to move all our users to WordPerfect on the PC's, UNIX, and VMS
machines, and found out:

	5.1 (tables, equations, graphics) available on DOS, SCO Xenix
	5.0 (simple tables) is (or shortly will be) on VMS
	4.2 (no tables, equations, graphics, large doc features) on UNIX
	- 5.0 planned late in '91 for Sun4/SPARC
	- 5.0 not planned for other platforms

Other (dumb terminal) word processors that may be worth looking at
that are available on Pyramids and other UNIX platforms are:

	CrystalWriter - (no info)

	WordMARC - we have an old version, didn't pay for Composer+

	Q-One/Q-Office - had problems years ago, but they may have improved

Ideally, we would want it to run on all platforms (Sun3, Sun4, VAX
UNIX, VMS, HP, SGI, and DOS) and be able to import and export
files and able to import and export files with troff, Interleaf, and Mac's
with troff, Interleaf, and Mac's.  Naturally, we haven't found it yet.