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Article #621264Re: Old word processors
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:30
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:30
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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes: >I was writing a blog article about early word processors and spreadsheets ><https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/2018/03/history-of-wordprocessors-and-spread.html> >but only covered early 8-Bit micros. Assuming Electric Pencil was the >first while WordStar or SuperCalc (spreadsheet) only really became famous >in the early days of the late 70s to early 80s. > >I know that in offices before that era type writers were used, even if an >IBM Selectric could ease the work. But they were hardware. They hadn't a >display (monitor) to edit text and only when done print it out. > >Still I wonder if big machines like some IBM 360/370 did not have word >processors... By word processor I do not mean any text editor. A word >processor should at least be able to wrap a word into the next line if it >didn't fit into the current line. And had some markup for defining a bold >or italic character and sub- and superscript. UW (University of Waterloo) script. Digital RUNOFF Burroughs ADS (Automatic Documentation System). troff all used markup sequences
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