Word processors for ANY 386 unix(es)

Chris LaReau chris at gistdev.gist.com
Sat Mar 24 02:25:58 AEST 1990


I've seen this asked before, but I didn't see any replies. A friend of mine is
working on a deal to outfit a customer with a bunch of 386's running some
flavor (to be determined) of unix. It can't be a deal unless he can get a
big-name word processor that will run (multi user over dumb terminals) on the
box. I just read the ad in the April byte about MS Word 5.0 for SCO Unix, so
I know that something exists (or will RSN :-); are there any others he should
look into? Information about anything that works on any variety of 386 unix
would be most welcome.

Also, my friend wants the boxes (25 MHz 386's) to run 25 or so word processing
sessions at once (over smart serial cards). I do development, and a 25 MHz 386
isn't enough power for *one* of me compiling something, but these people are
just going to be typing on a word processor. Is he way off base in thinking
that the machine will handle such a user load (with appropriate memory, etc)?

Thanks for your attention. I will post a summary to the net if anyone is
sufficiently interested.

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