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Yes but it’s dead now.



There was a post maybe two weeks from Tavis Ormandy (a tweet) that made the HN front page, about how he uses WordPerfect:

Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) Tweeted: @mkolsek Funny you should mention that, I was recently curious if there are any console word processors. I discovered there's a community who still use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. They kinda sold me on it, got it working in DOSEMU. https://t.co/t6j0c1G3w1


WordPerfect still has some users.

Last year we recruited an attorney from a firm that still uses WordPerfect for all their documents.




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