Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!pbrown
From: pbrown@triton.unm.edu (Paul V Brown CS)
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor for Windows 3.0?
References: <1991Apr25.200123.15055@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Apr26.004923.8553@int13.hf.intel.com> <1991Apr26.183053.6217@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.184844.1976@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 91 18:48:44 GMT
Lines: 29

lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Prometheus) writes:
>Does anyone know of a good WYSIWYG Word Processor for Windows?  I have been
>using MS Word for the Mac for quite a while now and would like something 
>similar for my 386sx as it has spoiled me :>

To which someone responded(correctly):
  WORD FOR WINDOWS

and then someone else said:
   If you can wait a couple months, an alternative will be Word Perfect for
   Windows.  Apparently, Word Perfect for Windows (WP4W?) can do everything
   that Word for Windows can do and also comes with an almost limitless supply
   of printer drivers and has a text mode similar to Word Perfect 5.1.

and someone else suggested AMI professional.

MY RESPONSE:
  While AMI has clearly beaten out WFW in performance tests (assuming that
  their ad's are correct), I don't think (not sure!!!) that it has a similar
  interface to Word4Mac.  The suggestion of waiting for Word Perfect is simply
  ludicrous.  The man wants something similar to Word4Mac, ok??  Anyone who
  has used Word4Mac and WFW, will tell you, these two programs are almost
  identical.  The clear choice here is WFW.  Unless someone has actually used
  both WordPerfect for Windows *and* Word4Mac, or AMI *and* Word4Mac, and can
  say that the interfaces are similar, then my guess is that there is no
  contest when a Mac user is looking for a wordprocessor for his IBM.

--Paul V. Brown
pbrown@triton.unm.edu
