WPS All in One files...

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Hey, if they work on a PC (In DOS I assume) I'd be very interested.


Curt



a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:

>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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>


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