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"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil.
by neom 5y ago
"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil. It was published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, and Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program. Starting with WordStar 4.0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
- rhabarba 5y agoYes. And it still is less annoying to use than some of its successors. (Your mileage is intended to vary.)
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah like WordPerfect. I remember all those strips people used to stick on their keyboards to remember all the weird function key combinations :) Though the "submerged" screen (where you could see all the markup control codes, not sure what it was called in the English feature) was a handy feature I kinda miss in modern word processors.
- lproven 5y agoIt was called "reveal codes". http://wordperfect.helpmax.net/en/creating-and-managing-documents/viewing-and-navigating-documents/using-reveal-codes/ http://wordperfect.helpmax.net/en/creating-and-managing-docu...
- rhabarba 5y agoTo be precise, it still is and Corel actively advertises it.
- sswaner 5y agoThe "boring" computer my parents bought in the 80's was a KayPro II with three programs - WordStar, CalcStar, and DataStar. It was great for me to learn those programs. The structure of text formatting in WordStar made HTML really easy to learn a decade later. I am excited to see if the WordStar keyboard commands come back easily to me after 35 years.