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MICROSOFT WORD FOR WINDOWS VERSION 1.1A SOURCE CODE
Len
Shustek [2] 5 hours ago From the Collection [3] 0
SOFTWARE GEMS: THE
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOURCE CODE SERIES
The dominant word
processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based
WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983,
was an also-ran.
That situation changed dramatically with the
introduction of Microsoft Word for Windows in 1989. By 1993 it was
generating 50% of the word processing market revenue, and by 1997 it was
up to 90%. [1]
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Clearly there was something extraordinary about
Word for Windows. Part of its success was due to Microsoft's marketing
acumen. But it was also a stunning technical achievement, and its
ability to run on ordinary PCs created the first popular vanguard of the
new graphics-oriented style of document preparation.
Remember, this
was a time when a typical personal computer might have an 8 Mhz
processor, 1 megabyte of memory, a 20 megabyte hard disk, and a floppy
disk drive. How did Word accomplish so much with so little?
There's
only one way to understand the magic in detail: read the code. With the
permission of Microsoft Corporation, the Computer History Museum is
pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code of
Word for Windows version 1.1a as it was on January 10, 1991. This
material is (c) Copyright by Microsoft.
The 7 MB zip file contains
1021 files in 33 folders. In the root directory there is a "readme" file
that briefly explains the rest of the contents. Most of it is source
code in C, but there are also text documents, x86 assembler-language
source files, executable tools, batch files, and more.
To access this
material you must agree to the terms of the license displayed here,
which permits only non-commercial use and does not give you the right to
license it to third parties by posting copies elsewhere on the web.
Download Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code [5]
Other historical source code releases in this series include IBM's APL
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Macpaint/QuickDraw [8], and Microsoft's MSDOS [9]. If you would like us
to do more of this, please consider supporting the museum's efforts by
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