Hmm. Murray Sargent's blog post states that Win95's WordPad IS written in MFC.
from https://web.archive.org/web/20070127011040/http://blogs.msdn...:
"...RichEdit 1.0 was wrapped in MFC to produce WordPad as an example of how MFC could be used for text processing. This was shipped with Windows 95 as mentioned in the previous post."