Hi, Your WordCheck application is a fascinating piece of microcomputer history! The earliest spell checkers I'm aware of are from the Unix and DEC operating systems such as Twenex. These were not separate commercial products though, and ran on minicomputers rather than micros. I'm not sure they did "stemming", which is what your application was doing. Chris On 04/01/2019 20:36, saipan59 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, there are other programs available... > > Pete >Received on 2019-01-08 21:02:45
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