6 Sep
2005
6 Sep
'05
5:01 p.m.
Kevin Handy wrote:
Word-11 was writted by DPD(?Data Processing Design?)
to bring WPS-8 capabilities to the PDP-11.
Originally written in basic, it was later partly recoded
into something else that compiled into executable code (probably
macro and basic+2) to speed it up. DEC later bought it and renamed it
to DecWord, iirc.
I used Word-11 (from the company MASS-11 I thought) back in 1985 or
so for some reports. This was under VAX/VMS. I suppose that, for its
time, it was not too bad. I was glad to upgrade to TeX though!
I don't remember anything by the name of DECword, but there was
a DECwrite. DECwrite bore no resemblance to the Word-11 that I
knew.
As for the original question, somewhere I have a set of
3.5" floppies that claim to implement WPS-PC (or some
not entirely dissimilar name). I can probably dig them
out at some stage if anyone cares enough about them
(and I can find them :-) and they are still readable :-( ).
From what little I do recall about those floppies, it
looked like a DEC product.
Antonio
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Antonio carlini
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