Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/16/07:20:39
In article <5dv6lu$g0f AT crc-news DOT doc DOT ca>, scott AT yarbus DOT dgbt DOT doc DOT ca (Scott Aitchison) wrote:
}Yeah, whatever. Word for Windows jumped to v6 (there was no version 5) to sync
}up with WordPerfect, which was at 6 at the same time. It was a psychological
}thing. Most people would tend to buy a product with a higher version number.
More likely to sync with Word for DOS, which had both a 5.0 and a 5.5 version
between the releases of WinWord 2.x and 6.0.
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