Microsoft Word

A word processing program from Microsoft that is actually two completely different codebases. The first one was a text mode version designed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie and was developed on Microsoft's in house UCSD Pascal derived system and shipped for DOS and XENIX with versions appearing a little later for most personal computers available at the time.

Versions

 * DOS
 * Nov 1983: Word 1.00
 * 1984: Word 1.10
 * Sep 1984: Word 1.15
 * 1985: Word 2.0
 * 1986: Word 3.0
 * Nov 1986: Word 3.1
 * 1987: Word 4.0
 * 1993: Word 6.0 (last known DOS version)


 * DOS & OS/2 (FAPI)
 * 1989: Word 5.0
 * 1990: Word 5.5
 * 1999: Y2K-compatible version
 * The DOS 5.5 version is available as a free download from Microsoft. Link is to US English version, other languages are available.


 * UNIX
 * 1987: Word 3.0 for XENIX (286)
 * 1988: Word 3.0.1
 * 1988: Word 3.0.2
 * Oct 1988: Word 3.0.3 - fixes for SCO XENIX Release 2.3
 * 1988: Word 3.0.4
 * 1990: Word 5.0.0 - for SCO XENIX Operating System Release 2.3.0 or SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.0
 * 1991: Word 5.0.1 - for SCO XENIX/UNIX 386, AT&T UNIX for 6386 & 3B2
 * 1991: Word 5.0.2
 * 1991: Word 5.0.4 - AT&T UNIX for 3B2
 * 1991: Word 5.1.0 - for SCO XENIX/UNIX 386, AT&T UNIX for 6386
 * 1991: Word 5.1.1 - for SCO XENIX/UNIX 386 & Open Desktop, AT&T UNIX for 6386

Publications

 * Peter Rinearson: Microsoft Word Style Sheets - Microsoft Press 1988, ISBN 1-55615-005-9
 * Peter Rinearson: Word Processing Power With Microsoft Word (3rd Edition) - Microsoft Press 1989, ISBN 1-55615-126-8

Links

 * SCO TA #108642