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   Word processor

   Word processor may also refer to an obsolete type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 80s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated computer for the editing of text. ... Text editors are now used mainly by programmers, website designers, and computer system administrators.
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   WordStar

   Notably, WordStar was the last commercial word processor supporting the CP/M operating system. ... The popular Turbo Pascal compiler used WordStar keyboard commands in its IDE editor.
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   MultiMate

   In addition to rebranding such externally-developed programs, Multimate rewrote the documentation for each program and adapted the program interfaces to more closely resemble the word processor. ... MultiMate eventually sold a hardware keyboard with dedicated function keys and issued versions of its software for networked PCs.
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   Microsoft Works

   Through version 4.5a, Works used a monolithic program architecture whereby the Works Word Processor and Spreadsheet/Database documents ran in windows of the same program interface, similar to AppleWorks. ... Surface · Zune (4 / 8 / 16 · 30 · 80 / 120) · MSN TV · Natural Keyboard · Keyboard · Mouse · LifeCam · LifeChat · SideWinder · Ultra-Mobile PC · Fingerprint · Audio System · Cordless Phone · Pocket PC · RoundTable · Response Point
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   X-Machine Testing

   For example, a word processor will use basic types Character (keyboard input), Position (mouse cursor position) and Command (mouse or menu command). ... To ensure test completeness, the domain of a function φ may be extended with special test inputs that are only used during testing.
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   Keyboard (computing)

   In normal usage, the keyboard is used to type text or numbers into a word processor, text editor or other program.
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   OpenDocument software

   Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application derived from the application Writely. ... Developed for Linux, but can also be used on Windows.
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   Personal computer

   Programs use keyboard shotcuts very differently and all use different keyboard shortcuts for different program specific operations, such as refreshing a web page in a web browser or selecting all text in a word processor. ... The scroll wheel can also be pressed down, and therefore be used as a third button.
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   WordPerfect

   By the time WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows was introduced, Microsoft Word for Windows version 2 had been on the market for over a year and had received its third interim release, v2.0c. WordPerfect's function-key-centered user interface did not adapt well to the new paradigm of mouse and pull-down menus, especially with many of WordPerfect's standard key combinations pre-empted by incompatible keyboard shortcuts that Windows itself used (e.g. Alt-F4 became Exit Program as opposed to WordPerfect's Block Text). ... Atlantis Word Processor · IBM Lotus Word Pro · Jarte (enhanced) · Microsoft Works · PolyEdit · Scientific WorkPlace · WordPad
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    Wang Laboratories

    The keyboard had 16 f-keys and unlike the popular word processor of the day, Wordstar, you didn't have to use control key combinations to navigate. ... Wang used a 16-bit data bus instead of the 8-bit data bus used by IBM.

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• Wang Laboratories