Word processing programs have run from the ridiculous ... and the feel of the keys is critical. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

About five years ago, I realized I didn’t know who would be Twain’s counterpart with the word processor. But firsts are always relative. Much depended on how you define terms like “write ...

Volkswriter’s lexicon contains 170,000 words, the largest microcomputer dictionary I’ve ever heard of. Most high-end word processors’ built-in spelling checkers run only about 80,000 to ...

Word processors may be among the most essential pieces of software on the planet, but they’re also among the most mundane. The last one I can think of that felt like a landmark was Writely, the ...

But once they got to the point where they had a good word processor, they realized it wouldn ... and you change as you go along. If you define something when you start off, then you leave no ...

Google Docs are famously easy to use. Designed much like a standard word processing software, they feature the same tools you would expect from the Microsoft Word program or Apple's Pages word ...

The Back Story: Woods told Kirschenbaum about how he had "invented" word processing in his head in the mid-1970s, but had to wait until 1979 to find a system he could actually afford. He was ...

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