Perfect Writer
Perfect Writer is a word processor computer program published by Perfect Software for CP/M and by Thorn EMI Computer Software for IBM PC compatible computers. It was written in C and famous for its stability. It was an enhanced version of MINCE, which itself was a version of Emacs for microcomputer platforms. Emacs itself was too heavyweight to fit within the 64kb RAM limit of most microcomputers.[1] Like MINCE, it included a floppy disk based virtual memory system. In a 2002 column, PC Magazine's John C. Dvorak named Perfect Writer as runner-up to WordPerfect as "worst word processor of all time".[2]
Along with its companion spreadsheet (Perfect Calc), and database (Perfect Filer), Perfect Writer was bundled with early Kaypro II and Morrow computers and had a list price of USD$349. It supported up to 7 buffers, had a character transpose command, undo, footnotes, and indexing. Its capabilities were very close to that of the dedicated word processors of the day.[3] Perfect Writer's ability to cut and paste between documents open in multiple buffers was an advantage over WordStar.[4]
Perfect Writer supported a number of add-on programs, Perfect Speller and Perfect Thesaurus, also published by Perfect Software, along with third party software such as Plu*Perfect published by Plu*Perfect Systems. Plu*Perfect included "D", a dired-like file browser.
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