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Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program. Starting with WordStar 4.0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau. WordStar dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil.
An exhausted Barnaby left the company in March 1980, but due to WordStar's sophistication, the company's extensive sales and marketing efforts, and bundling deals with Osborne and other computer makers, MicroPro's sales grew from $500,000 in 1979 to $72 million in fiscal year 1984, surpassing earlier market leader Electric Pencil.
In 1982, WordStar was ported to DOS. "So while WordMaster, SuperSort, and WordStar were developed on IMSAIs (I used mine til I got an IBM PC), few customers used them."-- Rob Barnaby in email to Mike Petrie 2 May 2000. In 1987 Rubinstein became involved with a spreadsheet he called Surpass.
A set of rare identical quadruplets can’t stop holding hands — and it's touching to watch. “They’re constantly reaching for each other,” Jonathan Sandhu, the babies’ dad, tells TODAY ...
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
In fiscal year 2024, the agency received more than $44 billion in federal funding, accounting for 0.4% of the entire federal budget, according to USAspending.gov.
In January 1983 some employees were paid late because of slow sales, but two months later revenue grew 25-fold after good reviews appeared in magazines. The company's fiscal 1984 sales were $15 million or more, [3] and by early 1985 MultiMate's installed base in companies was as large as former market leader WordStar's. [7]
Armando Navarro Jr., 50, is the ex-boyfriend of Jodie Hopcus, who was killed alongside her mother, Sherri Duncan, and her daughter, Hailey Hopcus