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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:07

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On 3/16/2018 4:30 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 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
> 

These things like RUNOFF are "text formaters", not word processors.  And 
IBM selectrics *are* typewriters.

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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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