Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bastian Related (from Wikipedia references): https://www.deseret.com/utah/2024/06/17/word-perfect-co-foun... https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/bruce-bastian-co-fo... https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-mou...

The legacy.com link lists cause of death as pulmonary fibrosis.

https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/bruce-bastian-1...

Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #5

I changed the url from https://www.wsj.com/tech/bruce-bastian-wordperfect-lgbtq-act... because that one doesn't appear to have any paywall workaround. It does appear to be a better article though, so if someone finds a link that people can actually read, we can swap it back.

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Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

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Post by ssl-3 » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

So long, and thanks for Reveal Codes.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

tgma wrote: post #2

The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf

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Re: Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

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Post by tibbydudeza » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

The goto office package during MSDOS time period - First WordStar then Multimate and then WordPerfect.

Famous for supporting every printer manufactured on planet Earth - 3 disks of printer drivers.

Afaik it was written in assembler hence the tough time when they needed to move to more modern OS/2 with Presentation Manager and then later Windows 3.