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Program Windows macOS GNU/Linux BSD BeOS/Zeta AmigaOS/MorphOS UNIX Other AbiWord: Yes No Yes Yes No No No QNX, Solaris: AppleWorks: Yes Yes No No No No No No Applix Word: Yes No
Title Platform Notes 1st Word/1st Word Plus: Atari ST and Acorn: AM Jacquard Systems: running Type-Rite, its own proprietary software [1]: Adobe Buzzword: Adobe PageMaker
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.
A document being edited in the LibreOffice word processor. 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.
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, [3] with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar.
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [11] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [12] [13] [14] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...
WordStar is a discontinued word processor application for microcomputers.It was published by MicroPro International and originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system (OS), with later editions added for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes.
Word processors are descended from the Friden Flexowriter, which had two punched tape stations and permitted switching from one to the other (thus enabling what was called the "chain" or "form letter", one tape containing names and addresses, and the other the body of the letter to be sent).