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Re: Actually, Word For Windows 1.x does exist

But possibly wasn't really sold as Windows wasn't good enough?

I have a load of licences + manuals of Word 2.0a, and it's pretty good. I copied one set of floppies to a CD. I remember the other wordprocessors on Win 3.0 were poor compared with Word.

Prior to Word 2.0 for Windows, I'd only seen the MS DOS version of Word and the Word 1.0 on Mac.

I didn't know they actually hired Xerox people to write it (OTOH, MS DOS, Visio and MS SQL bought in and original MS Basic was a clone/port of Dartmouth BASIC, a cut down ForTran).

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