How We Process Words: The Marketing of WP Software

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October-December 2006 (vol. 28 no. 4) pp. 88-91

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	@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2006.66, author = {Amy Wohl}, title = {How We Process Words: The Marketing of WP Software}, journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, volume = {28}, number = {4}, issn = {1058-6180}, year = {2006}, pages = {88-91}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2006.66}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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This personal note focuses on the market for PC word processing software and how it established a pattern of a popular product dominating the market until overtaken and pushed aside by its successor.

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word processing, WP, WordStar, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, PC software

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Amy Wohl, "How We Process Words: The Marketing of WP Software," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 88-91, Oct.-Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.66

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