WPS All in One files...

[a.carlini at ntlworld.com]

Kevin Handy wrote:
> Word-11 was writted by DPD(?Data Processing Design?)
> to bring WPS-8 capabilities to the PDP-11.
> Originally written in basic, it was later partly recoded
> into something else that compiled into executable code (probably
> macro and basic+2) to speed it up. DEC later bought it and renamed it
> to DecWord, iirc.  

I used Word-11 (from the company MASS-11 I thought) back in 1985 or
so for some reports. This was under VAX/VMS. I suppose that, for its
time, it was not too bad. I was glad to upgrade to TeX though!

I don't remember anything by the name of DECword, but there was
a DECwrite. DECwrite bore no resemblance to the Word-11 that I
knew.

As for the original question, somewhere I have a set of 
3.5" floppies that claim to implement WPS-PC (or some
not entirely dissimilar name). I can probably dig them
out at some stage if anyone cares enough about them
(and I can find them :-) and they are still readable :-( ).

>From what little I do recall about those floppies, it
looked like a DEC product.

Antonio

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Antonio carlini
arcarlini at iee.org