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* Charles Simonyi (MS Word VIO) | * Charles Simonyi (MS Word VIO) | ||
* Richard Brodie (MS Word VIO) | * Richard Brodie (MS Word VIO) | ||
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* SCO [http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/tasearch.print?taid=108642 TA #108642] | |||
[[Category:Word processors]] | [[Category:Word processors]] | ||
[[Category:DOS word processors]] | [[Category:DOS word processors]] | ||
[[Category:WinOS/2 word processors]] | [[Category:WinOS/2 word processors]] | ||
Revision as of 20:22, 28 June 2016
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.
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