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zatkintoday at 7:12 AM4 repliesview on HN

>This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename was Opus.

Not to be confused with the Anthropic LLM model Opus - what was once an old codename is as good as new once again!


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layer8today at 11:19 AM

“Opus” is/was a lot of things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus#Computing

trvztoday at 7:18 AM

It’s a common word amongst people with even a bit of erudition. In truth, using it for any kind of software is overusing it.

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userbinatortoday at 7:22 AM

Would be ironic if Claude Opus was used in making this port. IMHO the README does have a bit of LLM smell to it.

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IsTomtoday at 7:27 AM

And not to be confused with its plural form "opera".

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