[newfreep]

I forget the word processor, before “Word”, for PCs.

I used it a lot during MBA grad school in the PC lab that had 20+ PCs for students.

Lots of Harvard Business School cases to analyze & write...and so many other courses.

At one time I borrowed an Epson (IIRC) “laptop” - it was the size and weight of a small suitcase.

[sevlex]

WordPerfect and Supercalc.

I had them loaded on the super-massive 20mb hard drive on my ITTxtra.

[Dr. Sivana]

I forget the word processor, before “Word”, for PCs.

There were several that were #1: Wordstar, Multimate, and finally WordPerfect (the greatest mainstream word processor of all time, with XYwrite and Nota Bene as excellent niche products).

The DOS version of WordPerfect was written in assembler, so it was lightning fast on the PCs at the time. DOS Word and IBM's DisplayWrite were players, but definitely second tier. With DisplayWrite being almost unbearable.

[1066AD]

pfs:Write ?

Worked pretty well for routine use.