Книга: Amiga Software: Blitz Basic, Amos, Wordperfect, Amiga E, Lattice C, Tracker, Video Toaster, Amigaos 4, Amiga Support and Maintenance Software

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blitz Basic, Amos, Wordperfect, Amiga E, Lattice C, Tracker, Video Toaster, Amigaos 4, Amiga Support and Maintenance Software, Scummvm, Amiga Productivity Software, Deluxe Paint, Amiga Internet and Communications Software, Scala, Inc, Gfa Basic, Arexx, Amigabasic, Octamed, Directory Opus, Yam, Ultimate Soundtracker, Ixemul.library, Magic User Interface, Smart File System, Tume, Amiexpress, Professional File System, Wordperfect 4.1, Brilliance, Amosaic, Protracker, Skypix, Deluxe Music Construction Set, Trip-A-Tron, Cygnused, Ambient, Crossdos, Turboprint, Photogenics, Cubic Ide, Jamiga, Vistapro, It's a Skull, Boopsi, Mainactor, Zune, Draco, Oktalyzer, Alynx, Ncomm, Photon Paint, Xad, Excellence, Glowicons, Pagestream, Transadf. Excerpt: WordPerfect is a proprietary word processing application, now owned by Corel. Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979. Bastian and Ashton kept the rights to the WordPerfect software they designed for Orem, deciding to market it through their own company. Ashton and Bastian started Satellite Systems International (SSI) to sell WordPerfect in 1980. WordPerfect 1.0 represented a significant departure from the previous Wang standard for word processing. At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the de facto standard word processor, but has long since been eclipsed in sales by Microsoft Word. While available in MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows versions, its popularity was based in part on the fact that it was available for a wide variety of computers and operating systems, including Mac OS, Lin... More: booksllc.net/?id=33767