On 02/03/2014 10:44 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Supplanting WordStar, though. And though there were
many WS products -
WS2000, WS Express (known to Amstrad owners as Wordstar 1512), etc.,
the original WP was WordStar. WS 3 on the PC, later WS4 (which was
really NewStar, bought in & renamed:
http://www.wordstar.org/index.php/wordstar-history )
I was a WS2000 user almost from the beginning. Compared to WS3/4, it
was light-years ahead. I have a demo floppy (SSDD) for Word 1.0--it was
pretty interesting, but put a lot of extra text on the screen, so that
the text "window" itself was pretty small. One exception is that I
composed my help files using WS 4--the file format is very simple to
massage.
Fortunately for me, WS2000 came packaged with Star Exchange, so no great
loss when I eventually went to Word.
But yes, there were scads of word processors (and spreadsheets--remember
SuperCalc?). Some never made it from the 8-bit world (e.g. Spellbinder,
Memowrite) and that was too bad.
--Chuck