On 09/10/2017 11:40 AM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > then..... who was..... the TRUE first? >
We'll probably never know that one. It was an obvious application once alphanumeric printing was possible. See, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor#History One of the initial attractions was realizing that a computer program could arrange and format text to fit on a sheet of paper--and that it was very easy to edit said text if it resided on a deck of punched cards; later on a video display. --Chuck
