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

Microsoft Word 5.5B

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

• 3.0 (1987) - for XENIX (286)
• 3.0.1 (1988)
• 3.0.2 (1988)
• 3.0.3 (Oct 1988) - fixes for SCO XENIX Release 2.3
• 3.0.4 (1989)
• 5.0.0 (1990) - for SCO XENIX Operating System Release 2.3.0 or SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.0
• 5.0.1 (Apr 1990) - for SCO XENIX/UNIX 386, AT&T UNIX R3.2 for 6386 & 3B2
• 5.0.2 (1991)
• 5.0.4 (1991) - AT&T UNIX for 3B2
• 5.1.0 (1991) - for SCO XENIX/UNIX 386, AT&T UNIX for 6386
• 5.1.1 (1991) - 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