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by staofbur 3270 days ago
Acorn delivered proper WYSIWYG that actually worked on RiscOS around the same time. Everyone else was still playing with WordPerfect. TechWriter depicted below and impression were ridiculously powerful:

http://www.mw-software.com/icon-tech/Products/TechWriter/Tec...

So while your peers were just about getting a 386 with DOS/windows 3, you had a 32-bit ARM workstation with full anti aliased font rendering and production grade print capability.

Shame the kernel was poo and the file system so disparate to everything else or it may have taken off.

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Amiga users could enjoy the likes of PageStream and Papyrus Office, also about the same time.