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by AceJohnny2 3313 days ago
For reference, Simonyi worked on the legendary Xerox Alto, where he wrote Bravo, the first WYSIWYG editor.

He later joined Microsoft in 1991, where he started Word.

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He is also the inventor of so-called Hungarian Notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
1981, not 1991