![]() This meant that despite wild differences between different CP/M systems, the same binary could be imported and run on almost any 8080 or Z-80 based system regardless if it had an integrated video system or external terminal. It was configurable for a variety of terminal types. It made no assumptions about the system it was running on, and used only standard CP/M I/O. It was tightly coded in 8080 assembler, packing in all kinds of features. MicroPro Wordstar became an enormously popular word processor on 8-bit CP/M machines. Version 1.x was much different from later versions. There were several 0.x releases prior to 1.0 sold as release products. WordStar version 1.0 for CP/M was released in September 1978. The first incarnation of MicroPro's CP/M word processor, written by John Robbins Barnaby (a "mad genius of assembly-language coding,") for MicroPro founder Seymour Rubenstein, was released in 1976 and went by the name "WordMaster". ![]() (There is another version of WordStar on the Kaypro 2000 system disks.) However, it was also a shining example of a software product that could not keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of the 1980s. WordStar was a popular word processor during the early 1980s. I just love that Star Wars font they used on their 3.x manuals. ![]()
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