FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE

DESKTOP PUBLISHING WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What technology from the 1800s preceded and defined most of the functionality in a word processor?
A
Printing press
B
Phonograph
C
Typewriter
D
Notebook
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Released in 1979 by Micropro International, WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program produced for microcomputers. It became the best-selling software program of the early 1980s. Its inventors were Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby.

Detailed explanation-2: -Once upon a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, instead of word processors like today’s favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use typewriters.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first word processing program for personal computers (microcomputers) was Electric Pencil, from Michael Shrayer Software, which went on sale in December 1976. In 1978 WordStar appeared and because of its many new features soon dominated the market.

Detailed explanation-4: -Word Processing refers to the act of using a computer to create, edit, save and print documents. In order to perform word processing, specialized software (known as a Word Processor) is needed. One example of a Word Processor is Microsoft Word, but other word processing applications are also widely used.

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