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neat! wonder if someone will try to port it to 32-bit windows?
also, no mac source release? that was a very influential version of word. i heard also that some people at ms labs ported that mac word 5.1 to carbon, does that still exist or is my mind playing tricks?
Well this version of Word, is the first and last to support OS/2, which is kind of funny how that snuck in there!
Sadly you cannot distribute your modifications, but I don’t see any restriction about redistributing your patches…..
Cool! I had to check the date since I know April 1st is coming up 🙂
Opening the Word for DOS source folder and finding cat, (e|f|v|)*grep.exe, rm.exe, sed.exe, sort.exe, touch.exe… was kinda suprising.
*for Windows
As I was reading through some of this material some days ago I saw several references to how Word (and some other applications) were actually developed on Unix (on a PDP-11 IIRC). So finding typical Unix tools there isn’t maybe so surprising.
It would sound right, they did have Xenix on the PDP-11’s and I think they did on the VAX as well… Although I doubt either of those went outside of MS. There is some horror story of having to learn to use vi in order to get time off..
And before Exchange server, MS ran some internal mail system on Xenix that was pretty full featured although they never sold it.
No surprise to me. This has been a very hard work or Al Kossow et al.