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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MicroPro International (redirect from WordStar International)
1978 in San Rafael, California. They are best known as the publisher of WordStar, a popular early word processor for personal computers. Seymour I. Rubinstein...
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EasyWriter and WordStar. WordStar was created in four months by Seymour Rubinstein after founding MicroPro International in 1978. WordStar is commonly attributed...
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manufactured by NeXT. WriteNow was purchased from T/Maker by WordStar in 1993, but shortly after that, WordStar merged with SoftKey, which ultimately led to its discontinuation...
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software, publishing under it the extremely popular word processing package, WordStar. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and after a six-year stint in New Hampshire...
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Osborne 1, came with application software. Its software bundle included the WordStar word processor, SuperCalc spreadsheet, and the CBASIC and MBASIC programming...
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sale in December 1976. In 1978, WordStar appeared and because of its many new features soon dominated the market. WordStar was written for the early CP/M...
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dates back to early word processors on personal computers, circa 1980. WordStar was perhaps the earliest to provide this, originally via an ancillary program...
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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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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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HP-3000 and re-released as "HP Draw". By 1981, MicroPro advertised that its WordStar word processor had WYSIWYG, but its display was limited to displaying styled...
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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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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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the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar. It was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young University...
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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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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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sent strings of commands to existing word processing programs, such as WordStar, WordPerfect and Microsoft Word. SmartKey was popular with screenwriters...
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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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MS-DOS NewWord Developed by NewStar Software Inc., this was a clone of WordStar OfficeWriter MS-DOS Developed by Office Solutions, Inc. PaperClip Commodore...
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opened with Esc (to open the menus), T (for Transfer), L (for Load). In WordStar, ^ K D (to get to the Opening Menu), followed by D. In emacs, a file is...
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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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user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar. However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2...
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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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GPL-2.0-or-later JOE A modern screen-based editor with a sort of enhanced-WordStar style to the interface, but can also emulate Pico. Free software LE GPL-3...
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operating system. It was also bundled with a number of software packages: WordStar, the popular word processing package; SuperCalc, a spreadsheet; MBASIC...
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rivals Commodore International and Tandy Corporation. The co-creator of WordStar, Seymour Rubinstein, argued that the honor of the first killer app should...
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Emacs and Vim), word processors (e.g., Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and WordStar), document viewer (e.g., Atril), desktop publishing programs (e.g., PageMaker...
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was created out of a three-way merger between SoftKey Software Products, WordStar International, and Spinnaker Software. Shareholders of Softkey Software...
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parties, and also to unnecessary upgrades because of version changes. WordStar was a popular word processor that did not use binary files with hidden...
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programs WordPerfect, a word processor that was dominant in the 1980s WordStar, word processor originally for CP/M that became popular on the IBM PC BASIC...
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