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Mr. Draper implemented the first FORTH language on the Apple II, utilizing it to write a word processor. After modifying it for commercial sale, Easy Writer, the world's first word processor was born. It took him only 20 minutes to port FORTH to the PC, and 48 hours later, Easy Writer was delivered to IBM, beating out Bill Gates and the early Microsoft team on the project. While working for IBM, Mr. Draper created the "Virtual Machine Interface", a screen and keyboard driver. |
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Mr. Draper implemented the first FORTH language on the Apple II, utilizing it to write a word processor. After modifying it for commercial sale, Easy Writer was born. It took him only 20 minutes to port FORTH to the PC, and 48 hours later, Easy Writer was delivered to IBM. |
An early word processor for the Apple II, later ported to the IBM PC.
Author: John Draper (a/k/a "Cap'n Crunch"), Information Unlimited Software Homepage: None Family: WordProcessorFamily Platform: AppleDOS?, MS-DOS License: Comercial
Mr. Draper implemented the first FORTH language on the Apple II, utilizing it to write a word processor. After modifying it for commercial sale, Easy Writer was born. It took him only 20 minutes to port FORTH to the PC, and 48 hours later, Easy Writer was delivered to IBM.
Note: some reports claim EasyWriter was actually written in jail, while Draper was serving time for his "phone phreaking" activities as the infamous "Cap'n Crunch"