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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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274 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.429s | source
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90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 13:31 UTC] No.44005319[source]▶
Word Perfect!!! I'm almost positive that was the editor they taught me in the early 1990s in grammar school! (We called it grammar school back then, for it was the 1800s.) And yet I had never seen or used it since. This brings back so many memories. I was sitting next to a girl named Dana, the only Dana I ever met.
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onionisafruit ◴[16 May 25 14:20 UTC] No.44005851[source]▶
It was huge back then, but it tanked in the transition to Windows. I kept using the DOS version for years after that because I had muscle memory for WordPerfect’s shortcuts and liked the reveal codes feature.

Also I’ve met two Danas that I can remember. Both were lovely people.

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nubinetwork ◴[16 May 25 14:35 UTC] No.44006020[source]▶
WordPerfect 7 during the win95 era was alright... but businesses went office, and compatibility was a crapshoot, so home users followed suit.
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1. sjsdaiuasgdia ◴[16 May 25 14:47 UTC] No.44006153[source]▶
I recall using the Windows version of WordPerfect 6. The performance was awful versus Word on the same hardware.

It was also very unstable. I remember going to a friend's house to use his better computer and WordPerfect 6 to dress up a paper for school. It took hours longer than it should have due to the constant crashes. It was a very solid lesson in "save often" for teenage me.

I adored WordPerfect under DOS. The experience of WP6 for Windows was so bad that I switched to Word and never tried any future WP versions. Maybe they made it better in 7, but the damage was done.

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2. Shorel ◴[16 May 25 16:04 UTC] No.44007060[source]▶
Word Perfect 6.0 (they also had a DOS version) should be taught in software engineering universities as one of the prime examples of product managers killing the company.

5.1 was perfection, but the interface was text console. 6.0 was a complete redesign of … everything, and it was more a bad clone of MS Word than an improvement over WP 5.1.