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TMWNNtoday at 12:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Not so sure about this.

WordPerfect and Spectrum Holobyte explicitly cited software piracy as being worse on ST than on other platforms.


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zabzonktoday at 12:38 AM

Hmm, just looked up WP on Wikipedia - I didn't realise it was ported around so much. Particularly to the ST, who's keyboard was frankly Not Very Good, which is not what you want for word processing. But it did have a nice mono display, for the time.

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cmrdporcupinetoday at 1:06 AM

I think WP was just too late to the party honestly by the time they got around to actually seriously considering/doing what they said they would do, there were already established good word processors on the ST.

WP did eventually come to the ST and if I recall it was panned as a horrible port. I think there was talk of MS Word, too, and also a flop?

Mine came with 1st Word Plus, and it was excellent for the time.

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