doc format is in many ways a de facto standard when it comes to exchanging editable text documents, even when there’s no need for anything beyond plain text. Martin, author of “A Game of Thrones.”Īlthough there were plenty of worthy word processors on the Mac early on, including MacWrite, WriteNow, FullWrite Professional, Nisus Writer, and WordPerfect, Microsoft Word eventually came to dominate the market, in part due to running on both the Mac and in Windows.
Although WordStar has been defunct for years, some professional writers still rely on it, most notably George R.R. That said, what does count as a word processor? Plain text editors have been around forever, but when WordStar came out in 1978, it popularized the concept of a word processor: an app that not only let you edit text but take control of how it would appear on the printed page. In this TidBITS reader survey, our goal is not to crown any particular app but to collect your opinions about those word processors you’ve used.
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