Talk:WYSIWYG

you must be very young

When WordPerfect and other programs back in the mid-1980s introduced wizzywig or whatever, it had NOTHING at all to do with drop and drag. That obviously didn't exist. I doubt if anyone in the world had even heard of the term, except maybe someone at Apple. Could be. But this is what distinguished WordPerfect, say, from Wordstar, the premier word-processor at the time. Made WP the #1 processor overnight.... Hayford Peirce 04:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Actually, the WYSYWIG concept preceded Apple. It was developed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, the premier laboratory for developing brilliant concepts that the parent company had no idea how to sell. A word processor called the Xerox Star was commercially available in, as I remember, the late seventies, for about $10,000 then-current dollars. I saw prototypes at Xerox about 1976. Howard C. Berkowitz 08:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I read about that in the mid-eighties -- most of all computer (personal) advances came from there. I was writing above as a 1985-MS-DOS user. Wordperfect was a miracle compared to Wordstar! Hayford Peirce 16:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)