quote:Obit Tech entrepreneur Bruce Wayne Bastian, co-founder of WordPerfect, died last month at the age of 76 at his home in Palmdale, California. The cause, according to the B. W. Bastian Foundation, was "complications associated with pulmonary fibrosis." Bastian helped create the word processing application that became WordPerfect while still a graduate student at Brigham Young University, working with Alan Ashton, his computer science professor. They formed Satellite Software International (SSI) in 1979 and released an initial version of the software in March 1980 under the name SSI*WP for the Data General minicomputer. It cost $5,500 at the time, according to W. E. Pete Peterson, who wrote a history of the WordPerfect Corporation in the book Almost Perfect. ... Bastian left WordPerfect following its sale to Novell and focused on philanthropy, supporting arts and cultural programs in Utah. ...
RIP. I still have WP version 6.2 for DOS--last DOS version--running with DOSBox-X. Actually, I also have the iconic version 5.1 for DOS but have more trouble using it than the 6.2 version.
