Re: What was your first word-processor?

[pete.fenelon@zetnet.co.uk (Pete Fenelon)]

Mike Ching (kulasoft@pixi.com) wrote:
: Yeah, I remember AppleWriter 1, working in 40-columns and all upper
: case.  Those were the days.
: 

I have to shamefully admit to writing four of my first six word processors 
myself :) Then again, I am a text editor junkie. 

#1 was WordCraft on a PET.
#2 (mine) was a Commodore BASIC abomination I wrote myself, a very nasty
   screen editor with rudimentary search/replace, hard-coded for one 
   of those horrible Commodore dot matrix printers...:)
#3 was the immortal WordStar on an RML 380Z -- took it up after I'd given up
   trying to make TXED (RML's lobotomised TECO) do what I wanted it to.
#4 was WordWise in ROM on a BBC Micro, still an elegant design.
#5 (mine) was written in Locomotive Basic on an Amstrad 464, had
   [slow!] regular expression search and replace (the main reason I wrote it!)
   and tended to be used more for writing BASIC programs than for writing 
   any real documents. The fact that the Amstrad (4MHz Z80) had a quick enough 
   BASIC to make a screen editor possible in it is a tribute to 
   Locomotive Software, not to me :)
#6 (mine) was also on the Amstrad, but this time in Forth :) Lacked regexps, 
   but had macros. Again, written for the hell of writing something interesting
   in Forth.