WordMaster, plus a formatting program called Tex, formed MicroPro's main sales from September 1978 until April 1979, when WordStar was first shown at the West Coast Computer Faire at Brooks Hall in San Francisco. WordMaster was basically similar to NED in being a simple text editor with no print formatting capabilities of its own.
They were released as WordMaster (1976) and SuperSort (1977), both running on the CP/M operating system. Within a few months Barnaby had completed writing both programs in assembler. Rubinstein persuaded Barnaby to join the new MicroPro, and to write the editor and also a sorting program. Based on this information Rubinstein decided that MicroPro should work on a word processor for the CP/M operating system, which wasn't tied to specific computer hardware. These systems consisted of names such as Lanier, Vydec, Xerox, IBM, and Wang.
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Rubinstein obtained a report by DataPro on the current state of word processing computers and the features offered by the software they ran (at this time word processors were based on specialist computer hardware). Rubinstein left IMSAI with $8,500 in cash to form his own company, which he called MicroPro International Inc. The Early Days and MicroPro WordMaster 1976 - 1977 NED retained the command mode of ED for non-editing functions. Once most of ED's functionality had been incorporated, Barnaby added a video mode that allowed 2-dimensional cursor movement. Unlike ED, which had been written PL/M (Programming Language for Microprocessors, a sub-set of PL/I, Programming Language One), Barnaby used assembler for NED. ED Begot NEDīarnaby didn't like CP/M's line editor, ED, so he set to writing a replacement for it called NED, New EDitor. Rob Barnaby worked on enhancements to the CP/M operating system, adding file buffering to allow files that were larger than the computer's memory to be edited, and other useful and much needed functions. The IMSAI 8080 was a copy of the original 8-bit computer, the MITS Altair. IMSAI was making a computer based on the 8080 CPU and running Digital Research's CP/M (Control Program/Monitor or Control Program for Microcomputers) operating system.
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Millard employed Seymour Rubinstein as the director of marketing at IMSAI, and an assembly code programmer, John Robbins Barnaby, as a systems programmer.
It all began at IMS Associates Inc., a company founded by William H Millard. Summarised or abridged: a potted version of a novel.
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