Word. Perfect Wikipedia. Word. Perfect WP is a word processing application owned by Corel with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. The program was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young University for use on a Data Generalminicomputer in 1. The authors retained the rights to the program, forming Satellite Software International SSI to sell it under the name Word. Perfect in 1. 98. A port to MS DOS followed in 1. The applications feature list was considerably more advanced than its main competition, Word. Star, an established program that originated on CPM. Despite its comprehensive abilities, it still gained praise for its minimalistic look of spareness and clean display. Word. Perfect rapidly displaced most other systems, especially after the 4. By release 5. 1 in 1. Word. Perfect had become a standard in the DOS market. At the height of its popularity in the 1. While best known in its DOS and Microsoft Windows versions, its early popularity was based partly on its availability for a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Its dominant position ended after a flubbed release for Microsoft Windows, followed by a long delay before introducing an improved version. Microsoft Word, having been tuned for some time on the Mac, was introduced at the same time in a much superior version. Word rapidly took over the market, helped by aggressive bundling deals that ultimately produced Office, and by the mid 1. Word. Perfect was no longer the de facto standard. The common filename extension of Word. Word 6 0 For Dos Windows' title='Word 6 0 For Dos Windows' />Contains information on how to use MSDOS 7. Windows 9598ME. Apogee enters the educational arena with a program that teaches spelling, logic, word meanings and readingyet is as compelling to play as our other top g. Perfect document files is. Older versions of Word. Word 6 0 For Dos Windows' title='Word 6 0 For Dos Windows' />Perfect also used file extensions. Word. Perfect for DOSeditHistoryeditBruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University BYU graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton designed a word processing system for the city of Orems Data Generalminicomputer system in 1. Bastian and Ashton kept the rights to the Word. Perfect software they produced. The two founded Satellite Software International, Inc. Orem, Utah, to market the program to other Data General users. Word. Perfect 1. 0 represented a significant departure from the previous Wang standard for word processing. The first version of Word. Perfect for the IBM PC was released the day after Thanksgiving, 1. It was sold as Word. Perfect 2. 2. 0, continuing the version numbering from the Data General. Over the next several months, three more minor releases arrived mainly to correct bugs. The developers had originally hoped to program Word. Perfect in C, but at this early stage there were no decent C compilers available for the IBM PC. Most of the other programming languages then available were unsuited for the job, so they ultimately had to program it in x. All versions of Word. Perfect up to 5. 0 were written thus, and C was only adopted with WP 5. IBM compatibles. The use of straight assembly language and a high amount of direct screen access gave Word. Perfect a significant performance advantage over Word. Star, which used strictly DOS API functions for all screen and keyboard access and was often painfully slow. In addition, Word. Star was extremely slow in switching to support for subdirectories. In 1. 98. 3, Word. Perfect 3. 0 for DOS came out. This was fully updated to support DOS 2. It also provided a solution to the problem of printer support Word. Perfect 2. x only supported Epson and Diablo printers, which was also hard coded into the main program executable. Adding support for additional printers this way was impractical, so the company introduced the novel feature of printer drivers, which essentially amounted to a file containing a list of control codes for each particular model of printer. Version 3. 0 thus had support for 5. Word. Perfect also supplied an editor utility that allowed users to make their own printer drivers or modify the included ones. During this time, the company considered adding copy protection to the program, but ultimately decided against it. Antic observed that Word. Perfect Corp. doesnt need to worry too much about piracy Word. Perfect is almost unusable without its manual of over 6. The next year Word. Perfect 4. 0 was released. Word. Perfect 4. 2 in 1. Word. Perfect 4. 2 became the first program to overtake the original market leader Word. Star, the leading word processing program in a major application category on the DOS platform. The 4. 2 release only supported the text enhancements of Bold and Italic. By 1. 98. 7 a magazine described Word. Russian For Everybody Textbook. Perfect as a standard in the MS DOS world. On 6 November 1. 98. Word. Perfect Corporation released the programs most successful version, Word. Perfect 5. 1 for DOS, which was the first version aside from the short lived Word. Perfect 5. 0 to include text based Macintosh style, CUA style, pull down menus to supplement the traditional function key combinations, support for tables, a spreadsheet like feature, and full support for the typesetting options italic, redline, strikeout, etc. This version of Word. Perfect included, as a Print preview, a graphical representation of the final printed output. This was the foundation for Word. Perfect 6. 0s graphic screen editing. The data format used by Word. Perfect 5. 1 was, for years, the most common word processing file format. All word processors could read and convert that format,citation needed and many conferences and magazineswhich insisted that people ship their documents in 5. To allow older DOS based PCs to utilize the new Word. Perfect 6 file format, Word. Perfect 5. 1 for DOS was introduced. This version could read and write Word. Perfect 6 files, included several 3rd party screen and printing applications previously sold separately, and provided several minor improvements. Unlike previous DOS versions, Word. Perfect 6. 0 for DOS released in 1. WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get, including fonts. The previous text based versions used different colors or text color inversions to indicate various markups, and starting with version 5. Key characteristicseditWord. Perfects distinguishing features include extensive use of key combinations, especially on Data General CRTs, enabling touch typists to access features without having to use the mouse its streaming code file format its Reveal Codes featureits numbering of lines as the legal profession requires, and its macroscripting language, Perfect. Script. The ease of use of tools like Mail Merge combine form documents with data from any data source, Print as booklet, and tables with spreadsheet capabilities and possibility to generate graphs are also notable. The Word. Perfect document format allows continuous extending of functionality without jeopardizing backward and forward compatibility. Despite the fact that the newer version is extremely rich in functionality, Word. Perfect X5 documents are fully compatible with Word. Perfect 6. 0a documents in both directions. The older program simply ignores the unknown property while rendering the known elements of the document. Word. Perfect users were never forced to upgrade for compatibility reasons for more than two decades. Streaming code architectureeditA key to Word. Perfects design is its streaming code architecture that parallels the formatting features of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.