Utah's WordPerfect was the dominant PC word processing application for a almost a decade. It was a significant reason for the success of the IBM PC.

It was an important evolution that lowered the cost of word processing and made it more reliable,¹ but it doesn’t mean that Berezin “built the first true word processor.” ...

Arnold Goldman helped create one of the first word-processing machines, then moved on to build some of the world’s largest solar-energy plants. In 1969, the electrical engineer co-founded a Los ...