Re: First Wordprocessor (was Re: Amelio's Ouster)

[Equinox <Xoniuqe@tenffub.ten>]

Edward Franks wrote:
> 
> My glass typewriter shows Anonymous saying...
> [Snip]
> > The first wordprocessor, the first integrated software (AppleWorks),
> > and the first spreadsheet (VisiCalc) was invented on a II.
> 
>         Just one quibble.  The first word processor for a micro was, as I
> recall, Electric Pencil and it was for CP/M micros.  (I'm thinking of
> Jerry Pournelle's columns in Byte oh so many years ago.)
> 
>         So I guess the question is, was there a word processor out for the
> Apple ][ before Electric Pencil was out for the CP/M micros?
> 
> --
> 
> Fortran Dragon -==(UDIC)==- | "There isn't enough darkness in the world
> -=={MDLAM}==-               |  to quench the light of one small candle."

Actually I remember Electric Pencil, but Appleworks is my first love
in WPs. It took me a very long time before I finally broke the hold it
had on me and I found that WordPerfect 6 lived up to my 'standards' 
such as they are. 
						Equinox