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Things I learned from this article include: There was once a word processing machine named Wangwriter.

• jacquesm 16y ago
  The 'wang' was a pretty solid setup, a small computer with several terminals and a near as you could tell 'what-you-see-is-what-you-get' layout program, as well as templates and output to daisy wheel printers. The bank where I worked used these for almost every department, Wang made a killing selling them. Very high quality hardware too, the monitor arms could be used to bludgeon stray dinosaurs with. The Wang writer inspired me to write a proper editor for a mainframe (and later ported it to the Atari ST and from there to a bunch of other computers) that I worked with, which still had a line oriented editor instead of a full-screen one. I'm no longer using it, but it was a really good exercise to put that together.