Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!iagnet.net!iagnet.net!ais.net!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!jorn From: jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2,alt.folklore.computers Subject: WP timeline (Was: Electic Pencil) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:33:17 -0500 Organization: The Responsible Party (conservative left) Lines: 493 Message-ID: <1da5eho.ygau281evkm05N@jorn.pr.mcs.net> References: <3570EEFD.15AC@rocknet.net.au> <19980604.111216.1u2.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG> <35776722.87620646@news.supernews.com> <6l8j1e$3ed@news.seed.net.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: jorn.pr.mcs.net X-Face: #0%K`N$`(&&tLbyv~^Ip59&CqKAo;?NXix@bv2a,uQX;y*zAek26=&iDOJou, 2\2pLI"TKqjx.[BfZf#2 wrote: > > Back around '78 or '79 [...] > > Hold it right there. WordStar came out under the name WordMaster in > '78, and as much as I hate to admit it, Electric Pencil is generally > agreed to have appeared before that, so "'78 or '79" seems unlikely. Here's my incomplete reverse-timeline of wp development: See for many sources. ==== ?: Sam and Wily for Unix? 1996: Corel purchases WordPerfect (etc) from Novell 1996: Corel releases WordPerfect Suite 7, and Corel Office Professional Suite 1995: Lotus Development renames Ami Pro to Word Pro. 1995: Lotus Development ships SmartSuite 4.0 for Windows 3.1, for US$400. 1995: Microsoft introduces Microsoft Office 95. 1995: Apple Computer ships the Newton 2.0 operating system. 1994: Novell buys WordPerfect Corporation 1994: Aldus and Adobe Systems announce plans to merge the two companies. 1994: Microsoft ships Microsoft Word for Power Macintosh. 1994: Microsoft ships Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh. 1994: Novell ships PerfectOffice 3.0 for Windows. 1994: WordStar International merges, becoming SoftKey International. 1994: Aldus releases Aldus PageMaker 5.0a for Power Macintosh 1994: Carl Edman's Emacs for NextStep 1993: Amstrad begins shipping the Amstrad Pen Pad PDA600 PDA 1993: Lotus Development ships Lotus Notes 3.0. 1993: Quark ships QuarkXPress 3.2 for Windows 1993: Apple Computer introduces the Newton MessagePad 100 PDA 1993: WordPerfect releases WordPerfect for Macintosh 3.0 1993: Pearl Software's Win-Emacs for IBM 1993?: Geoff Voelker's NTEmacs for NT-PCs 1993: Julie Melbin's NotGNU for DOS, Windows 3/NT, X11/OSF 1992: IBM introduces ThinkPad laptop with new pointer device 1992: Quark ships QuarkXPress 3.1 for Windows 1992?: Ralph Betza's Z80EMACS for CP/M 1992: Lucid GNU Emacs (lemacs) for UNIX, VMS 1992?: Higashida and Satoshi's Demacs for 386/MS-DOS 1992: Anthony Howe's ae (Anthony's Editor) for Unix, IBM PC, Atari ST; requires curses 1991: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 2.0 for the Macintosh. 1991: Microsoft announces Multimedia Edition of Works 2.0 for Windows 1991: Microsoft announces BallPoint Mouse for laptops 1991: Nisus v3? for Mac 1991: Craig Finseth's Freyja for IBM PC, UNIX, HP95LX, HP100LX 1989: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh. 1989: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 5.0 for DOS. 1989: IBM introduces the Office Vision system (integrated sw?) 1989: Claris releases AppleWorks 3.0. 1989: NeXT ships the first NeXT Computer systems (w/bundled wp?) 1989: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 5.1 for US$500. 1989: Lotus Development ships Lotus Notes. 1989: Microsoft ships Word for Windows 1.0. 1989: MicroPro International changes its name to WordStar International. ?: Stringwriter v4.4 for HP 48g/gx (also 'yonpy'?) ?: Ez for Linux 1988: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 5.0 for US$500. 1988: Claris releases AppleWorks 2.1. 1988: Ami word processor for Windows is released 1988?: Jerzy Lewak and Victor Romano's Nisus for Mac from Paragon 1988: Bo Thide's evi vi->emacs modifications 1987: Microsoft begins shipping Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh. 1987: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Amiga for US$400 1987: Apple Computer introduces HyperCard for the Mac 1987: Microsoft ships Microsoft Works for DOS. 1987: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Atari ST for US$400 1987: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 4.0 for the PC. 1987: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh. 1987: Linus introduces the WriteTop, a 9-lb pen-based laptop ?: Epson QX16 w/VALDOCS (VALuable DOCumentS) suite 1986: SSI ships Student WordPerfect for US$75. 1986: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 3.0 for DOS. 1986: SSI changes its name to WordPerfect Corporation 1986: Apple Computer releases AppleWorks 2.0. 1986: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 4.2 for US$500 1986: Aldus PageMaker is released for the PC 1986: WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Apple IIgs for US$180 1986: Mike Meyer's MG (aka MicroGNU Emacs) for UNIX, VMS, AmigaDOS, Atari ST, OS/9-68K, Primos 1986: Craig Durland's ME2 (Mutt Editor II) for UNIX, IBMPC, Atari 1985: McCarthy freezes evolution of TeX 1985: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.0 for the Macintosh. 1985: SSI ships WordPerfect Jr. for US$200 for the IBM PCjr 1985: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 2.0 for DOS. 1985: Aldus releases Aldus PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh, for US$495. 1985: SSI ships WordPerfect 4.1 for US$500. 1985: Don P. Bennett, Jr. ports Emacs to IBM PC and clones 1985?: Borland's Sprint (aka Esprit) for IBM PC 1985: Charles Brannon's SpeedScript 3.0 freeware wp from Compute! magazine for Apple2, Atari 8-bit, Vic-20, C64 (small, fast, well-loved) ?: Wordmarc Composer, Xerox MemoryWriter CBM Amiga wps: TextCraft 1.0 (Plus) FinalWriter (2, 3, 4, 4.1 lite) Final Copy (II) WordWorth (2, 3.1, 5) TextEngine 5.01 ProPage V4.1 (DTP, memoryhog) GoldEd (shareware) WordPerfect 5.0 ProWrite Atari ST wps: Atari Works Word Writer First Word (Plus v3.20) Papyrus 1984: Apple bundles MacWrite w/Macintosh 1984: Ashton-Tate announces the integrated software package, Framework. 1984: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.1 for DOS. 1984: Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 1.15 for DOS. 1984: SSI ships WordPerfect 4.0 for US$500. 1984: Apple releases AppleWorks, integrated sw by Rupert Lissner for Apple ][ 1984: Kwik-Write (Datamost, C64) IBM wps: Ami Pro AI-Typist, by Arius Technology -> Write Now? Claris Works? DG CEOWrite 3.0 DisplayWrite 5 Enable FrameMaker FrameWork II, IV GeoWrite IBM Writing Assistant HP AdvanceWrite Plus Interleaf (Publisher) Lotus Freelance? Lotus Manuscript 2.0, 2.1 Legacy 1.x, 2.0? Locoscript PC (Professional) MS Windows Write MS Works MultiMate (Advantage, II) OfficePower Office Writer PFS: First Choice PFS: Write Peachtext Professional Write (Plus) Q&A Write Rapid File (memos) Samna Word IV (Plus) Spellbinder SuperWriter Total Word Volkswriter (Deluxe) VDE? Wang PC v3 WiziWord WordStar (2000) WordStar for Windows WriteNow? XyWrite III (Plus, IV, for Windows) Letter Perfect Uniplex? PC Write Nota Bene Context MBA (integrated) Heath H-89: Autoscribe CBM 128 wps: Vizawrite 128 Word Writer 128 Spinnaker's Better Working: WordPro 128 BBWriter 128 Charles Brannon's SpeedScript 128 Eric Lee's The Write Stuff 128 (very strong) The Write Stuff Illustrator II? GeoWrite 128 Digital Solution's Pocket Writer 3 CBM Plus/4 wps: Script Plus Apple 3: III EZ Pieces integrated sw by Rupert Lissner 1983: Apple's bundled Lisa wp 1983: VisiCorp's VisiOn, integrated software for PCs, US$1765 1983: Perfect Writer part of integrated sw 1983: Coleco's Adam w/bundled wp? 1983: SSI ships WordPerfect 3.0 for US$500. 1983: SSI ships Personal WordPerfect for US$200 1983: Microsoft ships Word 1.0 for US$375, $475 w/mouse (original name 'Multi-Tool Word') 1983?: Guy Harris et al's OfficePower integrated sw from Computer Consoles for CCI's 68K-based UNIX boxes and Tahoes, and VAXes running 4BSD 1983: Steven Zimmerman's emacs for HLH Orion 1983: Business Software's The Incredible Jack integrated sw for Apple 2 ?: Jef Raskin's SwyftCard for Apple2, integrated wp environment on card 1982: Story Writer for CBM Pet 1982: SSI ships WordPerfect 2.0 for DOS, for US$500 (v2.2 in October) 1982: An insurance company contracts with programmer Wilton Jones to create a PC wp that mimics Wang word processing -> MultiMate ?: Tandem's TEDIT, improves EDIT, eg multiple buffers. ?: Charles Brannon's SpeedScript (1, 2) freeware wp from Compute! magazine for Apple2, Atari 8-bit, Vic-20, C64 (small, fast, well-loved) early IBM wps: DisplayWrite, XyWrite (based on Atex editor), PerfectWriter, Volkswriter, WordStar C64 wps: Prentice Hall's SkiWriter (II) HES's HES Writer 64 Batteries Included's PaperClip (II, III, Publisher, Elite?) Word Writer 3? Sierra Online's Homeword CBM's Easy Script w/Easy Spell Font Master II Personal Choice Collection (incl wp) C64 Power Pack (incl wp) Creative Writer SuperScript Eric Lee's The Write Stuff Triomicro's The Printed Word CBM's The Word Machine? Spinnaker's Easy Working: The Writer Laing Marketinbg's Word Processor 64 Broderbund's Bank Street Writer Load N Go's Master Word? Digital Solutions' Pocket Writer 2, 3 Value Ware's PowerWord Celery Software's Professional Word Processor Celery Software's Swift Desktop Publishing Codewriter's Speedwriter Advantage's Textmaster Springboard's The Newsroom GeoWrite EasyScript (40 col w/scrolling for 80) TasMan's TasWord (slow) Mirage Cardco's Write Now! ViziWrite 64 Word Machine WordWriter Kwik-Write! (Datamost, 1984) BBC micro wps: WordWise 1981?: EasyWriter by Capt Crunch/ John Draper for IBM 1981?: Applewriter 2 1981?: Screenwriter II for Apple2 1981?: Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie move from Xerox Parc to Microsoft 1981: Yost leaves Rand, rewrites ned as the Grand Editor 1980: Wang's Wangwriter ($18k, 8" floppies, noisy?) 1980: Sony's Typecorder 1980: EDLIN created by Seattle Computer Products 1980: Alan Ashton and Bruce Bastian found Satellite Software Int'l (SSI) 1980: IBM's Displaywriter system includes spellchecking. 1980?: Convergent Tech. wp (CTOS now BTOS OS), 8086 written for Savin and general sale 1980?: Mike Kazar's FINE for PDP-10 (1967) 1980: Mark of the Unicorn's Mince/PerfectWriter/FinalWord/FinalWord II for IBM PC and CP/M 1980?: EasyWriter for Apple? 1980?: Interactive's INed screen editor (descendant of Rand editor) for INtext terminals (Perkin-Elmer terminal with custom ROM and keycaps) ?: TXED (RML380Z's lobotomised TECO) 1980: Scribe at CMU? 1979: MicroPro's WordStar for CP/M, by Rob Barnaby 1979: Apple's AppleWriter 1.0 by Paul Lutus for Apple2 (40 col, uppercase) 1979?: Screenwriter for Apple2 1979: WordPerfect for the Data General 1979: TV-Edit on Intel MDS-230 system 1979: Xerox Parc 'opens kimono' for Apple -> windows & mouse for Lisa 1979: Dave Yost at Rand rewrites ned 1979: Brian Kernighan generalizes troff 1979: awk and sed in Unix 7 1979: Douglas Hofstadter uses Kanerva's TV-Edit to write "Godel Escher Bach", one of the first manuscripts delivered/typeset on floppy disk? Atari 8-bit wps: Atari Word Processor, AtariWriter TRS-80 Model II wp: Scripsit CP/M: Magic Wand, Locoscript, Spellbinder, PerfectWriter 1978? Word Pro 1.1 for CBM Pet (1977) 1978?: Spellbinder for CP/M 1978: MicroPro introduces WordMaster (CP/M?) by Rob Barnaby 1978: Qyx, IBM, and Olivetti introduce all-electronic daisywheel typewriters 1978: Bernard Greenberg's Multics Emacs for Honeywell Multics 1978: Wang word processor offers WYSIWYG? 1978: Tandem's TGAL, RUNOFF-clone 1978?: Tandem's EDIT for Guardian system uses EDL-like indexed sequential editing w/block-mode called VS, run by the 16 function keys and their shifts 1978: ex in BSD Unix 1978: John McCarthy begins work on TeX 1978? Atex typesetter has auto-word-wrap w/proportional fonts, WYSIWYG? 1977: Textbook "Word Processing" by Rosen and Fielden 1977: Craig Finseth's VINE for VMS 1977: Owen Anderson's tv (aka otv, SINE) for MagicSix on Perkin-Elmer 3200 1977: Rand Editor extended by Bilofsky as 'ned'?, defines screen as 2-d plane (cf ascii art) CBM Pet wps: WordCraft Apple wps: AppleWriter 1, 2, 2e Franklin ACEWriter (II) Broderbund's Bank Street Writer (2c) Teach MECC Writer Term Paper Writer Flex Text Lane Roathe's Write Away! Timeout ReportWrite? Super MacroWorks? Springboard Publisher ReportWorks Multiscribe (GS) BeagleWrite (GS) GeoWrite 2.1 Seven Hills' GraphicWriter III (2GS only) Publish It! 4 Plus works II? Newsroom Print Master (Plus) AE Typeset Easy Working Writer Writer's Choice Elite GS Sensible Speller Webster's New World Spellchecker Printing Press Express Print Power Benchmark Spellbinder PIEwriter (no scroll) ScreenWriter (1981?) Artisi's Magic Writer? Sierra's HomeWrod (print preview) Multiscribe 1976: Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil for Altair (1975) ?: Dan Bricklin develops nice editing terminal for PDP-11/34 (1975) 1975: Richard Stallman's Emacs (in TECO) for PDP10/ITS (1967?) or DEC-20/TOPS-20 (1976?) 1975: Bravo prints to laser printer 1973-5 PARC: Bravo wp for Alto (-> MS Word) by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi et al. 'WYSIWYG' slogan borrowed from Laugh-In 1974: Paul Hardy and Paul McClellan's PPPP (Paul's Pretty Pagination Program) for IBM 370/176 (later for Modular 1 mini) uppercase input from punchcards, output to a band printer 1974: Walt Bilofsky's 're' (from Rand Editor) in C on UNIX v5 ?: DEC's TYPESET-10 and TYPESET-11 w/video display editing and powerful macro abilities, letterspacing, kerning, etc. ?: TSO and ROSCOE 1973: Don Lancaster describes "TV Typewriter" for hobbyists ?: GECOS ROFF improved to make UNIX NROFF and TROFF (New ROFF and Typeset ROFF?) 1973: UNIX troff (J. F. Ossanna) 1972: Murray Hill Computing Honeywell GCOS Roff Text Formatter 1972: TYPESET-8 system for PDP-8 in use by a dozen newspapers (text/c for center, text/r for right quad, text/l for left quad) for Linotypes, etc. ?: Pentii Kanerva rewrites TVEDIT for KI-10 (1972) 1971-2 PARC: Gary Starkweather invents first workable laser printer 1972 PARC: First font editor (Ben Laws and Alan Kay) ?: WYLBUR/ORVYL for IBM/360 at Stanford 1971: M. D. McIlroy writes ROFF for the GE 600/H 6000 under G[E]COS 1971: Wang 1200 word processor system with a 133k tape. 1971: Michael Hart starts Project Gutenberg 1971: Ned Irons' Yale screen-editor for PDP-10 1970: IBM 360Hasp RJE system? ?: QED ported(?) to Unix as ed (later giving rise to vi, ex) 1970: Ritchie and Thompson reimplement QED on Bell Labs GCOS 1969: IBM Selectric typewriter w/magnetic cards 1969: Multics PL/I qedx by Bob Daley 1969: IBM's ATS/360 -> ATMS, ATMS/370, ATMS/CICS ?: Fred Wright's E (TVEDIT in DEC-10 assembly language) 1968: Multics BCPL version of qed by McIlroy 1968: Engelbart demos SRI wp: NLS (oN-Line System) -> Augment 1968: Multics BCPL runoff by Canaday, Ritchie, Ossanna ?: Multics edm in PL/I (version of EDL), editor for novices, switch between input and edit via "." 1967-69: RAND shows GRAIL, penbased system w/modeless editing. 1967-8: CTSS BCPL runoff by Rudd Canaday, Dennis Ritchie used for Multics documentation 1967-8?: ?tv-typewriters w/16 lines * 40 chars, w/cursor keys, delete, etc running off IBM 360 under URSA w/graphics mode to preview output via CalComp plot. also "Space War" ?: Dan Swinehart's version of TVEDIT written in SAIL language 1965-7?: Ken Thompson ports QED to CTSS (mode-change via \f) 1967: Ned Irons' Rand screen-editor for CDC 6600 1967: CMS SCRIPT by Stuart E. Madnick ?: Steve Savitzky's Son of Stopgap (SOS) 1965-6?: QED for Berkeley TSS (Lampson?) 1964-66: John McCarthy's Zeus for PDP-1 runs TVEDIT on 8 Philco CRTs, uses 'Control-2' key (ie, Meta) 1966: Bill Weiher's STOPGAP line editor for PDP-6 ?: CTSS EDL by Jerry Saltzer, 'BCD version' of TYPSET for "line marked" files (variable-length records) ?: Auto Secretary, part of Project Genie for the SDS-940 (-> RUNOFF???) 1964-5: CTSS TYPSET by Jerry Saltzer, line editor like ED w/lower case, 1st editor written in high level language (MAD) 1964-5: CTSS RUNOFF by Jerry Saltzer drove IBM 1050 Selectric typewriter via dot-commands 1964: IBM Selectric typewriter w/magnetic tape 1964: Wang typesetter 1964?: ED had input and edit modes and a change command, very like today's UNIX line editors, upper case only (g/re/p?) 1964?: upper-case-only text formatter for Burroughs' B5500, used for software release notes, etc 1963: TVEDIT by Brian Tolliver? 1963: TJ-2 word processor (?) for PDP-1 (1960) 1963?: CTEST9 for CTSS by Art Samuel let you see what you were editing 1963?: MEMO, MODIFY, and DITTO on CTSS, equal INPUT-EDIT-PRINT w/lowercase 1962?: PDP-1 Expensive Typewriter by Peter Sampson 1962: Murphy & Greenblatt's TECO Tape Editor and Corrector on PDP1 at MIT 1962: Teletype ships its Model 33 keyboard and punched-tape terminal, used for input and output on many early microcomputers. 1962?: Dartmouth's input-the-line-with-a-line-number, output with the LIST command 1961?: CTSS's INPUT, EDIT, and PRINT (upper case only, line-number based) 1961: DDT DEC Debugging Tape descendant of FLIT 1960-1: DEC gives PDP-1 to MIT, adopted by TMRC ?: IBM 026 and 029 cardpunches 'programmable' for card numbering, repeat fields, and skipped fields. also card verifiers for proofreading via retyping? post-1957: FLIT Flexowriter Interrogation Tape debugging utility for TX-0 at MIT's Lincoln Lab ?: early CRT experiments w/ Whirlwind, IBM 701? 1947: Friden Flexowriter, upper/lower case, IBM electric typewriter mechanism, paper tape (editing by splicing?) 1930s: 405 alpha tabulator allows wp via punchcards (uppercase only) 1930s: punchcards with printed textline at top =========== j -- I EDIT THE NET: "In human stupidity, when it is not malicious, there is something very touching, even beautiful... There always is." --Leo Tolstoy