On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 3:38 PM saipan59 <saipan59@q.com wrote: > BTW, I have always "believed" that WordCheck was the first spell-checker > (sold commercially) for microcomputers. > If anyone knows of something earlier, please let me know. It would be good > to know if my 'bragging rights' are valid ;-) . I don't know an exact > release date for WordCheck, but it was before December 1980. > > A quick online search shows "SpellMaster" in 1982. It seems quite similar > to > WordCheck, but does not use my "root word" method (it seems to just store > complete words in its dictionary). > By 1984, ... > Wikipedia says 1980, so the question is which ones what months, etc. You may have the case that yours was a first if not the first, same year. Bill The first spell checkers for personal computers appeared for CP/M <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M> and TRS-80 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80> computers in 1980, followed by packages for the IBM PC <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC> after it was introduced in 1981. Developers such as Maria Mariani,[7] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker#cite_note-cled.georgetown.edu-7> Random House <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House>,[8] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker#cite_note-pc198211-8> Soft-Art, Microlytics, Proximity, Circle Noetics, and Reference Software[*citation needed <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*] rushed OEM <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer> packages or end-user products into the rapidly expanding software market, primarily for the PC but also for Apple Macintosh <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh>, VAX <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX>, and Unix <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix>. On the PCs, these spell checkers were standalone programs, many of which could be run in TSR <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_Stay_Resident> mode from within word-processing packages on PCs with sufficient memory. >Received on 2019-01-05 02:00:03
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