Published on: 2025-05-19 14:08:16
There was a saying in the 1980s that if you knew how to use WordPerfect, you were guaranteed a job in any office. WordPerfect was the word processing system for DOS and several other platforms - but in most technical writing circles, it was primarily known as a DOS system. A brief history W. E. Peterson details the rise and fall of WordPerfect in his book Almost Perfect (1994, Prima). Originally written by Alan Ashton for the Data General platform in the late 1970s, the first version of what w
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