Word processors I have known and loved: Wordstar. Vi. Emacs. Paperclip. WordPerfect. Pause now for a bit of nostalgia. It may seem odd to some of you, now that the creation of text on a page can be divided into the camps of 1) MS Word and 2) Everything else, but for a good long while in the Great Word Processor Wars, the outcome wasn’t always so clear. MS won. I won’t say that Word actually won, since it was more marketing muscle than merit that got it to where it is today. There were once a lot of contenders, and the heaviest hitter of them all, imo, was WordPerfect. Continue reading →