The way people playing with #text prompts these days .. I recall typing in word star .

Those who don't know .. here ..

WordStar

Released in 1979 by MicroPro International

The first commercially successful word processing software for microcomputers

The best-selling software program of the early 1980s. Included with the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable microcomputer

WordPerfect

The first program to overtake WordStar in a major application category on the DOS platform . WordPerfect 4.2, released in 1986, introduced automatic paragraph numbering, footnotes, and endnotes

By 1990, WordPerfect dominated the market

WordStar was the leading word processing system until 1985. WordPerfect was designed for newer, larger, more powerful desktop machines.

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Who knew we took word processors for granted? I don't really do so as far as I'm aware, but maybe I'm wrong.

#Vim is still the best :-)