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WordStar is a discontinued word processor application for microcomputers. It was published by MicroPro International and originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system (OS), with later editions added for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program.
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.
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.
About 82,400 people remained under evacuation orders and another 90,400 faced evacuation warnings as of Wednesday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Thursday.
A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to findings of an autopsy report a lawyer for the man's family shared Wednesday.
Lotus Development Corp. releases Lotus 1-2-3, which would become the IBM PC's first "killer application", making the PC as VisiCalc made the Apple II and WordStar made the CP/M machines. It was programmed entirely in assembly language and bypassed the slower DOS screen input/output functions in favor of writing directly to memory-mapped video ...
Dick Vitale is one of college basketball’s defining and most enduring figures.. After coaching for 16 years, Vitale joined ESPN in 1979, only a few months into the network’s existence, and ...
The books feature Scripture, stills from the film, questions related to the film's topic, and a single fun fact for each episode, usually about some production aspect of the film. An app is also available to watch the NOOMA videos for both iOS and Android , developed in 2011 by the Christian media publishing company Zondervan .