Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.

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RachelF 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, it was a great word processor. Better than MS Word, and it had features Word still lacks like mixing styles on a single line.

What I find curious is how, as the market expanded, all these other Vendors died.

One would expect the opposite - a bigger market means more diversity. An odd thing I still don't understand.

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theparanoid 4 days ago | parent [-]

Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.

	▲	fred_is_fred 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Windows 95/98 shipped with some kind of half-implemented Word, the name of which I forgot. So you could send a Word doc to anyone basically and they could read it, a great business strategy.
	▲	bombcar 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Paradoxically the Internet killed the others; now printouts weren’t the standard document exchange format.