WordPerfect
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13recommend
0warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Lightning-fast apps like WordPerfect, sold on their speed and their device support”
“I learned to love WordPerfect.”
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“Yep, WP for DOS was quick.”
“WordPerfect for DOS was always responsive and quick wheb I used it.”
“When I saw this post I immediately thought of WordPerfect. It had such a pleasant interface for that time.”
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All comments 22
“Lightning-fast apps like WordPerfect, sold on their speed and their device support”
“does word perfect give you anything that markdown in obsidian doesn't?”
“I myself am just amazed that it still exists”
“describes getting the UNIX release of Word Perfect running on modern Linux”
“I learned to love WordPerfect.”
“Yep, WP for DOS was quick.”
“WordPerfect for DOS was always responsive and quick wheb I used it.”
“When I saw this post I immediately thought of WordPerfect. It had such a pleasant interface for that time.”
“If asked, I often name WordPerfect 4.2 as the best software I ever used.”
“As a big fan of WordPerfect on my first DOS machine”
“but I really really really loved WordPerfect”
“This is a famous "killer" feature from WordPerfect”
“WordPerfect beat them all.”
“by 1988 was in good shape”
It's not that, it's that when WP did arrive on the ST it was a zero effort bad offering, two years late. https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n6/wordperfect.php
“Some commercial alternatives to MS Office:”
“If you were a legal secretary WordPerfect was near irreplaceable”
“I described how to get all 3 here”
“Have you tried... WordPerfect?”
“Would love to try if I could swap out the underlying Tilde editor with classic Wordperfect”
“Look at those screenshots! It's still a Windows 95 look'n'feel”
“I'd spend the $50 for home/student version just for the lulz.”