He had a plan for developing a word processor that included "a what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) screen display with easy page scrolling, inserting and text editing. Ashton had worked with Evans & Sutherland. Bastian was convinced to change from a master's in music to computer science by Ashton, who was a BYU computer science professor with a degree from the University of Utah. WordPerfect started as Satellite Systems Inc in 1979 with Bruce Bastian, Alan Ashton and Don Owens. It was also the biggest competitor to Microsoft in the word processing market and often beat Microsoft Word in popularity.
It was a significant reason for the success of the IBM PC. Tips for future articles can be sent to OREM - Utah's WordPerfect was the dominant PC word processing application for almost a decade. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story.Įditor's Note: This article is part of the Utah Inventions series, which features a different inventor or invention with Utah ties on Wednesdays. Only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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