Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985)

Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by dredmorbius on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:59PM (#15745181)

WinNT drew tremendously on VMS (even the old saw: VMS -> WNT), Cutler's previous project at DEC, and on OS/2, on which IBM had partnered with Microsoft. NT had a lot of external boost.

I seem to recall that MS Word at least drew on an existing wordprocessing system, though I can't pin that down.

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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by megaman22 on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:13PM (#15745228)

I think there is still compatibility in Word for WordPress keyboard shortcuts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect

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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by dredmorbius on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:36AM (#15745866)

Yeah, that was just a compatibility thing though.

I believe there may have been a word processor out of PARC itself that went on to become a product elsewhere. I don't know if that became or directly fed into MS Word or not.

And I'm really hazy on this, so don't take me too seriously.

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