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Article #621577Re: Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:41
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:41
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:50:52 -0500, Dave Garland wrote:
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> On 3/23/2018 4:50 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
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>> That is where "mail merge" steps in. Already WordStar has this function.
>
> That is true. But word processing has been on the scene for more than
> a decade before WordStar brought it to the masses on generic (CP/M or
> MSDOS) hardware. Maybe much longer (I'm not familiar with mainframe
> connected WP).
All right. May be I should had called the subject "Word processors for
computers with (commercial available [1]) microprocessors". So everything
after the Intel 4004.
[1] The until 1997 classified MP944 might have been the first ever
"computer on a chip".
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Andreas
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