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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

What's your distinction? I seem to recall that Wordstar wasn't WISIWIG. The
only difference between Wordstar and something like Script is what you use
for markup: control characters vs. dot-commands.

-- 
Pete