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On Fri, 2018-03-16, 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

And that non-WYSIWYG way of processing words still has a strong
following. HTML, Markdown, ...

/Jorgen

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