OT:Scripsit (was Re: OT - FpWord)

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013, Tom Podnar wrote:

>Scripsit was a GREAT program. Much better than WP for Unix ever was. John
>poured his heart and soul into it; but he didn't have what WordPerect
>poured into it which was gobs of marketing money for an inferior product.

While Scripsit was far superior to WordPerfect, WordPerfect was
far superior to Word for Windows at the time.  I got a phone call
once where the caller's first words were "I want Reveal Codes".

We sold our first mission-critical Linux system to a law firm in
September 1997 where it was the central file and print server to
a bunch of Windows machines.  The office manager was a very
competent legal secretary, and she hated being forced to use
MS-Word instead of WordPerfect, saying it cut their productivity
by more than 50%.

>Alas, I don't see my Scripsit binder on the shelf anymore, although I do
>have two big giant filePro 16 binders and another that just says "filePro"
>with a 4.0 manual inside.

>If I boot my old SCO 3.2v4.2 server, I can probably still run Scripsit.
>That machine still runs, but whines and doesn't get turned on very often.
>Pentium 90 with a 2GB hard drive.

Sounds about the same vintage as my 3.2v4.2 server which is
sitting in the rack with my old Xenix box.  The last time either
of these were booted was about 1/1/2000 to see what they would do
with the dates.

Bill
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