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  2. Word processor - Wikipedia

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    A word processor (WP) [1] [2] is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general purpose computers.

  3. COBOL - Wikipedia

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    COBOL (/ ˈ k oʊ b ɒ l,-b ɔː l /; an acronym for "common business-oriented language") is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language.

  4. Word processor program - Wikipedia

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    A word processor program is an application program that provides word processing functions. The most basic of them include input, editing, formatting, and output of rich text . The functions of a word processor program fall somewhere between those of a simple text editor and a fully functioned desktop publishing program.

  5. Outline of software - Wikipedia

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    Word processors; Middleware controls and co-ordinates distributed systems. Programming languages – define the syntax and semantics of computer programs. For example, many mature banking applications were written in the language COBOL, invented in 1959. Newer applications are often written in more modern languages.

  6. List of word processor programs - Wikipedia

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    Formerly ClarisWorks Word Processing, also an older and unrelated application for Apple II. Succeeded by iWork. Amí: Windows: developed and marketed by Samna: Apple Writer: Apple II, Apple III: SuperWriter: Apricot Portable: Built-in word processor in Apricot Computers devices Authorea: word processor for students and researchers AstroType ...

  7. Word processor (electronic device) - Wikipedia

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    The mid-to-late 1980s saw the spread of laser printers, a "typographic" approach to word processing, and of true WYSIWYG bitmap displays with multiple fonts (pioneered by the Xerox Alto computer and Bravo word processing program), PostScript, and graphical user interfaces (another Xerox PARC innovation, with the Gypsy word processor which was ...

  8. Text processing - Wikipedia

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    The text processing of a regular expression is a virtual editing machine, having a primitive programming language that has named registers (identifiers), and named positions in the sequence of characters comprising the text. Using these, the "text processor" can, for example, mark a region of text, and then move it.

  9. Word (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The number of bits or digits [a] in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture. The size of a word is reflected in many aspects of a computer's structure and operation; the majority of the registers in a processor are usually word-sized and the ...