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On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, Jered J Floyd wrote:

> 
> > 	The iBCS suite at tsx-11.mit.edu will allow you to run the SCO Unix
> > version of WordPerfect, and several other programs besides.
> 
>    This, of course, relies on WordPerfect being in one's definition of a 
> good word processor. :-) I'd like Word for Windows to run under WINE, but
> that'll be a while.  I'm thinking of just buying Word for Mac and running
> it under Executor.
> 
>    And the first person to give EMACS as a word processor....

Well, I *wasn't* going to say anything-- but personally I'll take Emacs 
and LaTeX over any version of MS-Word any day!  And I *have* used Word, 
both on a Mac and under Windows, to prepare a ~500 page technical 
manual.  Thankfully I haven't had to do anything quite so extensive 
since, but if I ever do I certainly won't repeat the mistake of allowing 
myself to be coerced into using Word.

I will grant you, however, that if your word-processing needs rarely 
extend beyond a few pages for a letter, Word is a an easier tool to master.

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