Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 07:38:02 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: WordPerfect 8 "Review" |
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On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 05:57:43PM -0800, nobody@vitelus.com wrote: > the days... CP/M thence begat DOS, and WordStar saw CP/M begin to die, and thus > moved to DOS. Then one salty day in Utah, WordPerfect was born.
I believe that WordPerfect actually started out in life as a Data General RDOS program before moving on to CP/M (the fondness for {shift,control}-function keys, etc. mapped on to the DG character terminals). After all, there were computers before trash-80's. I don't recall when RDOS was born, but it was already old hat (and dying) when I joined Data General in 1979.
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