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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/users/kephalos/statuses/114398427059868262">Holger (kephalos@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 14:49:26 JST</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kephalos" title="kephalos@social.tchncs.de"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/223089-48-20240903173603.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Holger" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Holger</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://fnordon.de/@herr_rau">@herr_rau</a> hmm, Borland Sprint fällt mir noch ein <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor)</a> (Da hab ich auch das User Manual als PDF). Aber das ist in Borland-Blau gehalten aber es hat ein Auszeichnungssystem.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4956216#notice-9711600">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-26T14:49:26+09:00" title="Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 14:49:26 JST">about 14 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kephalos/114398427059868262" rel="external" title="Sent from social.tchncs.de via ActivityPub">social.tchncs.de</a></span></span><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kephalos/114398427059868262">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: login.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor)">Sprint (word processor)</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Sprint is a text-based word processor for MS-DOS, first published by Borland in 1987.HistorySprint, originally known as The FinalWord application, is developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, Brian Hess, and Bill Spitzak at Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) - a company (headquartered in Cambridge, MA) which is now better known for its music software products. At the time MOTU sold MINCE and SCRIBBLE, a text editor package based on Emacs.  As The FinalWord, the package met with some success in the sense that the manuals of the Lotus software package were written on it, as was Marvin Minsky's book The Society of Mind.
FinalWord II was renamed to Sprint when it was acquired by Borland, which added a new user interface, new manuals, and features to the application. The editor speed was considered blazing at the time, running with no delays on machines as slow as 8 megahertz.
This was the time of European development for Borland: Sidekick and Turbo Pascal had been founded in Denmark; and the management of the European subsidiary comprised former Micropro France managers (Micropro was at the time the...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Holger (kephalos@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 14:49:26 JSTHolger
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@herr_rau hmm, Borland Sprint fällt mir noch ein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor) (Da hab ich auch das User Manual als PDF). Aber das ist in Borland-Blau gehalten aber es hat ein Auszeichnungssystem.
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  Sprint (word processor)
  Sprint is a text-based word processor for MS-DOS, first published by Borland in 1987. History Sprint, originally known as The FinalWord application, is developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, Brian Hess, and Bill Spitzak at Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) - a company (headquartered in Cambridge, MA) which is now better known for its music software products. At the time MOTU sold MINCE and SCRIBBLE, a text editor package based on Emacs. As The FinalWord, the package met with some success in the sense that the manuals of the Lotus software package were written on it, as was Marvin Minsky's book The Society of Mind. FinalWord II was renamed to Sprint when it was acquired by Borland, which added a new user interface, new manuals, and features to the application. The editor speed was considered blazing at the time, running with no delays on machines as slow as 8 megahertz. This was the time of European development for Borland: Sidekick and Turbo Pascal had been founded in Denmark; and the management of the European subsidiary comprised former Micropro France managers (Micropro was at the time the...

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