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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
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
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.
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.
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.
WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and textual WYSIWYG.Besides word-wrapping (still a notable feature for early microcomputer programs), this last was most noticeably implemented as on-screen pagination during the editing session.
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).
WordPad is a word processor software designed by Microsoft that was included in versions of Windows from Windows 95 through Windows 11, version 23H2.Similarly to its predecessor Microsoft Write, it served as a basic word processor, positioned as more advanced than the Notepad text editor by supporting rich text editing, but with a subset of the functionality of Microsoft Word.