3 ms·
Oh, there was. WordPerfect 6 had a full GUI mode with a very vaguely Win3-like GUI implemented in DOS. Borland Quattro Pro had one too. Microsoft Word could
by lproven 1y ago
Oh, there was.
WordPerfect 6 had a full GUI mode with a very vaguely Win3-like GUI implemented in DOS.
Borland Quattro Pro had one too.
Microsoft Word could be flipped in and out of it: in it, you got WYSIWYG bold, italic, underline etc, and more lines on screen, but otherwise the UI remained much the same.
PowerQuest imitated Win95 so well in PartitionMagic it was pixel-perfect.
It was entirely a thing in the late DOS era. It let DOS apps look competitive, and yet demand far lower system requirements and run on much older machines than one needed for Windows.
- gcanyon 1y agoMy time with WP ended with version 3? maaaybe 4
- lproven 1y agoAre you sure? Your earlier comments expressed uncertainty if it was WordPerfect at all. WordPerfect on the PC was a very niche app before version 4.2 which was the big hit. I knew a tiny handful of places that had copies of the older version but they weren't running it. It is on the edge of before my time -- I started my first job in late 1988 -- but before WP 4.2, WordStar still dominated, with some specialist users running DisplayWrite or MultiMate. I'm not American and I think the US market was different with shareware taken slightly more seriously, so more presence of PC Write, and maybe XyWrite or other tools little seen in the British Isles.