• WordStar is a discontinued word processor application for microcomputers. It was published by MicroPro International and originally written for the CP/M-80...
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  • operating system. Several other word processing programs were released shortly after, including EasyWriter and WordStar. WordStar was created in four months...
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    1985). "Wordstar 2000". InfoWorld. p. 47. Retrieved March 6, 2011. Angel, Jonathan (May 19, 1986). "NewWord 3 Is Now More Than Clone Of WordStar". InfoWorld...
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  • word processing program until 1985 when WordPerfect sales first exceeded WordStar sales. Early word processing software was not as intuitive as word processor...
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  • computer software, publishing under it the extremely popular word processing package, WordStar. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and after a six-year stint...
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    since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar. However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing...
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    with WordStar, MailMerge + SpellStar. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31805-X. Necasek, Michal (2018-01-30) [2018-01-28, 2018-01-26]. "WordStar Again"...
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  • The following is a list of notable word processor programs. AbiWord – available for AmigaOS, Linux, ReactOS and Solaris Apache OpenOffice Writer – available...
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  • Mail merge (category Word processors)
    being messaged. Mail merge dates back to early word processors on personal computers, circa 1980. WordStar was perhaps the earliest to provide this, originally...
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  • into WORDSTAR 2000 Release 3. p. 9. ISBN 1349109886. "Software Spotlight: WordStar". WinWorld. June 18, 2018. Pearlman, Gregg (May 1988). "WordPerfect...
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  • WriteNow (category Classic Mac OS word processors)
    primary word processor for computers manufactured by NeXT. WriteNow was purchased from T/Maker by WordStar in 1993, but shortly after that, WordStar merged...
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    to modern underline. Wordstar had strikeout in v3.0 in 1982; however, the functionality may have been in earlier versions. Wordstar was launched in 1978...
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    application software with a retail value of more than US$1500, including the WordStar word processor, SuperCalc spreadsheet, and the CBASIC and MBASIC programming...
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  • filters for additional older word-processing formats (including EBCDIC, DisplayWrite, MultiMate, PFS Write, WordStar, WordStar 2000, and XyWrite (conversion...
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  • current line in the WordStar word processor for CP/M and MS-DOS. In the 1980s, many text editors and word processors mimicked the WordStar command set, making...
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    use WordStar 7.0 for DOS (the final release, last updated in 1992) to write his novels. All twenty-five of his novels were written with WordStar. He runs...
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  • MicroPro International's StarBurst in the early 1980s, comprising the WordStar word processor, the CalcStar spreadsheet and the DataStar database software....
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  • Machine retrieved 2012‑01‑09. GNU Emacs can have Wordstar emulation, with the command M-x wordstar-mode, as found from ws-mode.el retrieved 2017‑03‑14...
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    system. It was also bundled with a number of software packages: WordStar, the popular word processing package; SuperCalc, a spreadsheet; MBASIC, a programming...
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    always on the screen. The key sequences in JOE are similar to those of WordStar and Turbo C: many are combinations of the Control key and another key,...
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    March 2023. "WordStar History". www.wordstar.org. Retrieved 11 March 2023. Feigenson, Walter (23 April 2009). "William F Buckley and WordStar". Wally's Follies...
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  • Corporation. The co-creator of WordStar, Seymour Rubinstein, argued that the honor of the first killer app should go to that popular word processor, given that...
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    daisy wheel printer), a separate version of Wordstar had to be prepared, and one had to load the Wordstar version that corresponded to the printer selected...
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  • Calendar Tom Kite Golf Troggle Trouble Math The Three Little Pigs WriteNow Wordstar for Windows 2 War Wind II: Human Onslaught Burgess, Steve. "Kevin O'Leary"...
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  • implementing the WordStar program, because there is some pattern of molecule movements that is isomorphic with the formal structure of WordStar. But if the...
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    consolidator in the educational software market, acquiring rivals such as WordStar and Spinnaker Software in the process. In 1995, Softkey acquired The Learning...
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  • the WordStar 3.20 manual) switching between them at runtime […] the OS interface in WordStar is quite narrow and well abstracted […] the WordStar 3.2x...
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  • Electric Pencil (category Word processors)
    Shrayer, was the first word processor program for home computers. Despite its initial market dominance, alternatives like WordStar and Magic Wand surpassed...
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    Currently, Hailey appears as Alice in The L Word: Generation Q and hosts podcast PANTS with fellow L Word star and close friend, Kate Moennig. Born in Okinawa...
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    compatible with all Big Board software—and sold a customized version of WordStar for $495, although by 1982 the company offered the standard version for...
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