====
?: Sam and Wily for Unix?

1996: Corel purchases WordPerfect (etc) from Novell
1996: Corel releases WordPerfect Suite 7, and Corel Office Professional
Suite

1995: Lotus Development renames Ami Pro to Word Pro.
1995: Lotus Development ships SmartSuite 4.0 for Windows 3.1, for
US$400.
1995: Microsoft introduces Microsoft Office 95.
1995: Apple Computer ships the Newton 2.0 operating system.

1994: Novell buys WordPerfect Corporation
1994: Aldus and Adobe Systems announce plans to merge the two companies.
1994: Microsoft ships Microsoft Word for Power Macintosh.
1994: Microsoft ships Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh.
1994: Novell ships PerfectOffice 3.0 for Windows.
1994: WordStar International merges, becoming SoftKey International.
1994: Aldus releases Aldus PageMaker 5.0a for Power Macintosh
1994: Carl Edman's Emacs for NextStep

1993: Amstrad begins shipping the Amstrad Pen Pad PDA600 PDA
1993: Lotus Development ships Lotus Notes 3.0.
1993: Quark ships QuarkXPress 3.2 for Windows
1993: Apple Computer introduces the Newton MessagePad 100 PDA
1993: WordPerfect releases WordPerfect for Macintosh 3.0
1993: Pearl Software's Win-Emacs for IBM
1993?: Geoff Voelker's NTEmacs for NT-PCs
1993: Julie Melbin's NotGNU for DOS, Windows 3/NT, X11/OSF

1992: IBM introduces ThinkPad laptop with new pointer device
1992: Quark ships QuarkXPress 3.1 for Windows
1992?: Ralph Betza's Z80EMACS for CP/M
1992: Lucid GNU Emacs (lemacs) for UNIX, VMS
1992?: Higashida and Satoshi's Demacs for 386/MS-DOS
1992: Anthony Howe's ae (Anthony's Editor) for Unix, IBM PC, Atari ST;
requires curses

1991: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 2.0 for the Macintosh.
1991: Microsoft announces Multimedia Edition of Works 2.0 for Windows
1991: Microsoft announces BallPoint Mouse for laptops
1991: Nisus v3? for Mac
1991: Craig Finseth's Freyja for IBM PC, UNIX, HP95LX, HP100LX

1989: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh.
1989: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 5.0 for DOS.
1989: IBM introduces the Office Vision system (integrated sw?)
1989: Claris releases AppleWorks 3.0.
1989: NeXT ships the first NeXT Computer systems (w/bundled wp?)
1989: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 5.1 for US$500.
1989: Lotus Development ships Lotus Notes.
1989: Microsoft ships Word for Windows 1.0.
1989: MicroPro International changes its name to WordStar International.

?: Stringwriter v4.4 for HP 48g/gx (also 'yonpy'?)
?: Ez for Linux

1988: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 5.0 for US$500.
1988: Claris releases AppleWorks 2.1.
1988: Ami word processor for Windows is released
1988?: Jerzy Lewak and Victor Romano's Nisus for Mac from Paragon
1988: Bo Thide's evi vi->emacs modifications

1987: Microsoft begins shipping Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh.
1987: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Amiga for US$400
1987: Apple Computer introduces HyperCard for the Mac
1987: Microsoft ships Microsoft Works for DOS.
1987: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Atari ST for US$400
1987: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 4.0 for the PC.
1987: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh.
1987: Linus introduces the WriteTop, a 9-lb pen-based laptop

?: Epson QX16 w/VALDOCS (VALuable DOCumentS) suite

1986: SSI ships Student WordPerfect for US$75.
1986: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 3.0 for DOS.
1986: SSI changes its name to WordPerfect Corporation
1986: Apple Computer releases AppleWorks 2.0.
1986: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 4.2 for US$500
1986: Aldus PageMaker is released for the PC
1986: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Apple IIgs for US$180
1986: Mike Meyer's MG (aka MicroGNU Emacs) for UNIX, VMS, AmigaDOS,
Atari ST, OS/9-68K, Primos
1986: Craig Durland's ME2 (Mutt Editor II) for UNIX, IBMPC, Atari

1985: McCarthy freezes evolution of TeX
1985: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.0 for the Macintosh.
1985: SSI ships WordPerfect Jr. for US$200 for the IBM PCjr
1985: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 2.0 for DOS.
1985: Aldus releases Aldus PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh, for
US$495.
1985: SSI ships WordPerfect 4.1 for US$500.
1985: Don P. Bennett, Jr. ports Emacs to IBM PC and clones
1985?: Borland's Sprint (aka Esprit) for IBM PC
1985: Charles Brannon's SpeedScript 3.0 freeware wp from Compute!
magazine for Apple2, Atari 8-bit, Vic-20, C64 (small, fast, well-loved)

?: Wordmarc Composer, Xerox MemoryWriter

CBM Amiga wps:
TextCraft 1.0 (Plus)
FinalWriter (2, 3, 4, 4.1 lite)
Final Copy (II)
WordWorth (2, 3.1, 5)
TextEngine 5.01
ProPage V4.1 (DTP, memoryhog)
GoldEd (shareware)
WordPerfect 5.0
ProWrite

Atari ST wps:
Atari Works
Word Writer
First Word (Plus v3.20)
Papyrus

1984: Apple bundles MacWrite w/Macintosh
1984: Ashton-Tate announces the integrated software package, Framework.
1984: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.1 for DOS.
1984: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.15 for DOS.
1984: SSI ships WordPerfect 4.0 for US$500.
1984: Apple releases AppleWorks, integrated sw by Rupert Lissner for
Apple ][
1984: Kwik-Write (Datamost, C64)

IBM wps:
Ami Pro
AI-Typist, by Arius Technology -> Write Now?
Claris Works?
DG CEOWrite 3.0
DisplayWrite 5
Enable
FrameMaker
FrameWork II, IV
GeoWrite
IBM Writing Assistant
HP AdvanceWrite Plus
Interleaf (Publisher)
Lotus Freelance?
Lotus Manuscript 2.0, 2.1
Legacy 1.x, 2.0?
Locoscript PC (Professional)
MS Windows Write
MS Works
MultiMate (Advantage, II)
OfficePower
Office Writer
PFS: First Choice
PFS: Write
Peachtext
Professional Write (Plus)
Q&A Write
Rapid File (memos)
Samna Word IV (Plus)
Spellbinder
SuperWriter
Total Word
Volkswriter (Deluxe)
VDE?
Wang PC v3
WiziWord
WordStar (2000)
WordStar for Windows
WriteNow?
XyWrite III (Plus, IV, for Windows)
Letter Perfect
Uniplex?
PC Write
Nota Bene
Context MBA (integrated)

Heath H-89: Autoscribe

CBM 128 wps:
Vizawrite 128
Word Writer 128
Spinnaker's Better Working: WordPro 128
BBWriter 128
Charles Brannon's SpeedScript 128
Eric Lee's The Write Stuff 128 (very strong)
The Write Stuff Illustrator II?
GeoWrite 128
Digital Solution's Pocket Writer 3

CBM Plus/4 wps: Script Plus

Apple 3: III EZ Pieces integrated sw by Rupert Lissner

1983: Apple's bundled Lisa wp
1983: VisiCorp's VisiOn, integrated software for PCs, US$1765
1983: Perfect Writer part of integrated sw
1983: Coleco's Adam w/bundled wp?
1983: SSI ships WordPerfect 3.0 for US$500.
1983: SSI ships Personal WordPerfect for US$200
1983: Microsoft ships Word 1.0 for US$375, $475 w/mouse (original name
'Multi-Tool Word')
1983?: Guy Harris et al's OfficePower integrated sw from Computer
Consoles for CCI's 68K-based UNIX boxes and Tahoes, and VAXes running
4BSD
1983: Steven Zimmerman's emacs for HLH Orion
1983: Business Software's The Incredible Jack integrated sw for Apple 2
?: Jef Raskin's SwyftCard for Apple2, integrated wp environment on card

1982: Story Writer for CBM Pet
1982: SSI ships WordPerfect 2.0 for DOS, for US$500 (v2.2 in October)
1982: An insurance company contracts with programmer Wilton Jones to
create
a PC wp that mimics Wang word processing -> MultiMate
?: Tandem's TEDIT, improves EDIT, eg multiple buffers.
?: Charles Brannon's SpeedScript (1, 2) freeware wp from Compute!
magazine for Apple2, Atari 8-bit, Vic-20, C64 (small, fast, well-loved)

early IBM wps: DisplayWrite, XyWrite (based on Atex editor),
PerfectWriter, Volkswriter, WordStar

C64 wps:
Prentice Hall's SkiWriter (II)
HES's HES Writer 64
Batteries Included's PaperClip (II, III, Publisher, Elite?)
Word Writer 3?
Sierra Online's Homeword
CBM's Easy Script w/Easy Spell
Font Master II
Personal Choice Collection (incl wp)
C64 Power Pack (incl wp)
Creative Writer
SuperScript
Eric Lee's The Write Stuff
Triomicro's The Printed Word
CBM's The Word Machine?
Spinnaker's Easy Working: The Writer
Laing Marketinbg's Word Processor 64
Broderbund's Bank Street Writer
Load N Go's Master Word?
Digital Solutions' Pocket Writer 2, 3
Value Ware's PowerWord
Celery Software's Professional Word Processor
Celery Software's Swift Desktop Publishing
Codewriter's Speedwriter
Advantage's Textmaster
Springboard's The Newsroom
GeoWrite
EasyScript (40 col w/scrolling for 80)
TasMan's TasWord (slow)
Mirage
Cardco's Write Now!
ViziWrite 64
Word Machine
WordWriter
Kwik-Write! (Datamost, 1984)

BBC micro wps: WordWise

1981?: EasyWriter by Capt Crunch/ John Draper for IBM
1981?: Applewriter 2
1981?: Screenwriter II for Apple2
1981?: Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie move from Xerox Parc to
Microsoft
1981: Yost leaves Rand, rewrites ned as the Grand Editor

1980: Wang's Wangwriter ($18k, 8" floppies, noisy?)
1980: Sony's Typecorder
1980: EDLIN created by Seattle Computer Products
1980: Alan Ashton and Bruce Bastian found Satellite Software Int'l (SSI)
1980: IBM's Displaywriter system includes spellchecking.
1980?: Convergent Tech. wp (CTOS now BTOS OS), 8086 written for Savin
and
general sale
1980?: Mike Kazar's FINE for PDP-10 (1967)
1980: Mark of the Unicorn's Mince/PerfectWriter/FinalWord/FinalWord II
for IBM PC and CP/M
1980?: EasyWriter for Apple?
1980?: Interactive's INed screen editor (descendant of Rand editor) for
INtext terminals (Perkin-Elmer terminal with custom ROM and keycaps)
?: TXED (RML380Z's lobotomised TECO)
1980: Scribe at CMU?

1979: MicroPro's WordStar for CP/M, by Rob Barnaby
1979: Apple's AppleWriter 1.0 by Paul Lutus for Apple2 (40 col,
uppercase)
1979?: Screenwriter for Apple2
1979: WordPerfect for the Data General
1979: TV-Edit on Intel MDS-230 system
1979: Xerox Parc 'opens kimono' for Apple -> windows & mouse for Lisa
1979: Dave Yost at Rand rewrites ned
1979: Brian Kernighan generalizes troff
1979: awk and sed in Unix 7
1979: Douglas Hofstadter uses Kanerva's TV-Edit to write "Godel Escher
Bach", one of the first manuscripts delivered/typeset on floppy disk?

Atari 8-bit wps: Atari Word Processor, AtariWriter
TRS-80 Model II wp: Scripsit
CP/M: Magic Wand, Locoscript, Spellbinder, PerfectWriter

1978? Word Pro 1.1 for CBM Pet (1977)
1978?: Spellbinder for CP/M
1978: MicroPro introduces WordMaster (CP/M?) by Rob Barnaby
1978: Qyx, IBM, and Olivetti introduce all-electronic daisywheel
typewriters
1978: Bernard Greenberg's Multics Emacs for Honeywell Multics
1978: Wang word processor offers WYSIWYG?
1978: Tandem's TGAL, RUNOFF-clone
1978?: Tandem's EDIT for Guardian system uses EDL-like indexed
sequential editing w/block-mode called VS, run by the 16 function keys
and their shifts
1978: ex in BSD Unix
1978: John McCarthy begins work on TeX
1978? Atex typesetter has auto-word-wrap w/proportional fonts, WYSIWYG?

1977: Textbook "Word Processing" by Rosen and Fielden
1977: Craig Finseth's VINE for VMS
1977: Owen Anderson's tv (aka otv, SINE) for MagicSix on Perkin-Elmer
3200
1977: Rand Editor extended by Bilofsky as 'ned'?, defines screen as 2-d
plane (cf ascii art)

CBM Pet wps: WordCraft

Apple wps:
AppleWriter 1, 2, 2e
Franklin ACEWriter (II)
Broderbund's Bank Street Writer (2c)
Teach
MECC Writer
Term Paper Writer
Flex Text
Lane Roathe's Write Away!
Timeout ReportWrite?
Super MacroWorks?
Springboard Publisher
ReportWorks
Multiscribe (GS)
BeagleWrite (GS)
GeoWrite 2.1
Seven Hills' GraphicWriter III (2GS only)
Publish It! 4
Plus works II?
Newsroom
Print Master (Plus)
AE Typeset
Easy Working Writer
Writer's Choice Elite GS
Sensible Speller
Webster's New World Spellchecker
Printing Press Express
Print Power
Benchmark
Spellbinder
PIEwriter (no scroll)
ScreenWriter (1981?)
Artisi's Magic Writer?
Sierra's HomeWrod (print preview)
Multiscribe

1976: Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil for Altair (1975)
?: Dan Bricklin develops nice editing terminal for PDP-11/34 (1975)

1975: Richard Stallman's Emacs (in TECO) for PDP10/ITS (1967?) or
DEC-20/TOPS-20 (1976?)
1975: Bravo prints to laser printer

1973-5 PARC: Bravo wp for Alto (-> MS Word) by Butler Lampson, Charles
Simonyi et al. 'WYSIWYG' slogan borrowed from Laugh-In
1974: Paul Hardy and Paul McClellan's PPPP (Paul's Pretty Pagination
Program) for IBM 370/176 (later for Modular 1 mini) uppercase input from
punchcards, output to a band printer
1974: Walt Bilofsky's 're' (from Rand Editor) in C on UNIX v5
?: DEC's TYPESET-10 and TYPESET-11 w/video display editing and powerful
macro abilities, letterspacing, kerning, etc.
?:  TSO and ROSCOE

1973: Don Lancaster describes "TV Typewriter" for hobbyists
?: GECOS ROFF improved to make UNIX NROFF and TROFF (New ROFF and
Typeset ROFF?)
1973:  UNIX troff (J. F. Ossanna)

1972: Murray Hill Computing Honeywell GCOS Roff Text Formatter
1972: TYPESET-8 system for PDP-8 in use by a dozen newspapers (text/c
for center, text/r for right quad, text/l for left quad) for Linotypes,
etc.
?: Pentii Kanerva rewrites TVEDIT for KI-10 (1972)
1971-2 PARC: Gary Starkweather invents first workable laser printer
1972 PARC: First font editor (Ben Laws and Alan Kay)
?: WYLBUR/ORVYL for IBM/360 at Stanford

1971: M. D. McIlroy writes ROFF for the GE 600/H 6000 under G[E]COS
1971: Wang 1200 word processor system with a 133k tape.
1971: Michael Hart starts Project Gutenberg
1971: Ned Irons' Yale screen-editor for PDP-10

1970: IBM 360Hasp RJE system?
?: QED ported(?) to Unix as ed (later giving rise to vi, ex)
1970: Ritchie and Thompson reimplement QED on Bell Labs GCOS

1969: IBM Selectric typewriter w/magnetic cards
1969: Multics PL/I qedx by Bob Daley
1969: IBM's ATS/360 -> ATMS, ATMS/370, ATMS/CICS
?: Fred Wright's E (TVEDIT in DEC-10 assembly language)

1968: Multics BCPL version of qed by McIlroy
1968: Engelbart demos SRI wp: NLS (oN-Line System) -> Augment
1968: Multics BCPL runoff by Canaday, Ritchie, Ossanna
?: Multics edm in PL/I (version of EDL), editor for novices, switch
between input and edit via "."

1967-69: RAND shows GRAIL, penbased system w/modeless editing.
1967-8: CTSS BCPL runoff by Rudd Canaday, Dennis Ritchie used for
Multics documentation
1967-8?: ?tv-typewriters w/16 lines * 40 chars, w/cursor keys, delete,
etc running off IBM 360 under URSA w/graphics mode to preview output via
CalComp plot. also "Space War"
?: Dan Swinehart's version of TVEDIT written in SAIL language

1965-7?: Ken Thompson ports QED to CTSS (mode-change via \f)
1967: Ned Irons' Rand screen-editor for CDC 6600
1967: CMS SCRIPT by Stuart E. Madnick
?: Steve Savitzky's Son of Stopgap (SOS)

1965-6?: QED for Berkeley TSS (Lampson?)
1964-66: John McCarthy's Zeus for PDP-1 runs TVEDIT on 8 Philco CRTs,
uses 'Control-2' key (ie, Meta)
1966: Bill Weiher's STOPGAP line editor for PDP-6
?: CTSS EDL by Jerry Saltzer, 'BCD version' of TYPSET for "line marked"
files (variable-length records)
?: Auto Secretary, part of Project Genie for the SDS-940 (-> RUNOFF???)

1964-5: CTSS TYPSET by Jerry Saltzer, line editor like ED w/lower case,
1st editor written in high level language (MAD)
1964-5: CTSS RUNOFF by Jerry Saltzer drove IBM 1050 Selectric typewriter
via dot-commands

1964: IBM Selectric typewriter w/magnetic tape
1964: Wang typesetter
1964?: ED had input and edit modes and a change command, very like
today's UNIX line editors, upper case only (g/re/p?)
1964?: upper-case-only text formatter for Burroughs' B5500, used for
software release notes, etc

1963: TVEDIT by Brian Tolliver?
1963: TJ-2 word processor (?) for PDP-1 (1960)
1963?: CTEST9 for CTSS by Art Samuel let you see what you were editing
1963?: MEMO, MODIFY, and DITTO on CTSS, equal INPUT-EDIT-PRINT
w/lowercase

1962?: PDP-1 Expensive Typewriter by Peter Sampson
1962: Murphy & Greenblatt's TECO Tape Editor and Corrector on PDP1 at
MIT
1962: Teletype ships its Model 33 keyboard and punched-tape terminal,
used for input and output on many early microcomputers.
1962?: Dartmouth's input-the-line-with-a-line-number, output with the
LIST command

1961?: CTSS's INPUT, EDIT, and PRINT (upper case only, line-number
based)
1961: DDT DEC Debugging Tape descendant of FLIT

1960-1: DEC gives PDP-1 to MIT, adopted by TMRC

?: IBM 026 and 029 cardpunches 'programmable' for card numbering, repeat
fields, and skipped fields. also card verifiers for proofreading via
retyping?

post-1957: FLIT Flexowriter Interrogation Tape debugging utility for
TX-0 at MIT's Lincoln Lab

?: early CRT experiments w/ Whirlwind, IBM 701?

1947: Friden Flexowriter, upper/lower case, IBM electric typewriter
mechanism, paper tape (editing by splicing?)

1930s: 405 alpha tabulator allows wp via punchcards (uppercase only)
1930s: punchcards with printed textline at top

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