While WordStar survived, it never again thrived.
To add insult to injury, WordStar also faced a split in its loyal customer base thanks to a clone backed by longtime Computer Chronicles contributor George Morrow. But as the early CP/M machines gave way to the MS-DOS-based IBM Personal Computers, WordStar quickly lost market share to an upstart rival, WordPerfect. The publisher of WordStar, MicroPro International, was one of the first successful computer software companies. It competed directly against many word processors, including WordPerfect, Microsoft Word for DOS, and Multimate. It was ported to a number of CP/M architectures as well as Unix and PC/MS-DOS. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, WordStar was the gold standard for word processors on microcomputers. Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads WordStar 4.0 for CPM-80 (5.25-SSDD) 4.0 for CPM-80 English: 41.81MB: 2: WordStar 4.0 for CPM-80 (files) (alt) 4.0 for CPM-80 English: 390.19KB: 2: WordStar Professional 4.00 for DOS (5.25-360k) 4. WordStar, originally from MicroPro, was a popular word processor during the early 80s. At that time, many keyboards lacked arrow keys for cursor. Chronicles Revisited Podcast 12 - A WordStar Divided WordStar was first released in 1979, before there was any standardization in computer keyboards.
