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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. In 1989 a new version with a graphical user interface and coded from the ground up in C was introduced for Microsoft Windows and followed the year after by a version for OS/2.

Versions

DOS

Nov 1983: Word 1.0
1985: Word 2.0
1986: Word 3.0
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.

OS/2 Presentation Manager

1990: Word for OS/2 1.1
Last known OS/2 PM version: Microsoft Word for OS/2 v1.1b

Windows

Nov 1989: Word for Windows 1.0
1990: Word for Windows 1.1
1990: Word for Windows 1.1a
1992: Word for Windows 2.0
1993: Word for Windows 6.0

Authors & publisher

Microsoft
Charles Simonyi (MS Word VIO)
Richard Brodie (MS Word VIO)

Links

SCO TA #108642

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	A word processing program from [[Microsoft]] that is actually two completely different codebases. The first one was 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.		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. In 1989 a new version with a graphical user interface and coded from the ground up in [[C]] was introduced for [[Microsoft Windows]] and followed the year after by a version for [[OS/2]].

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