Bravo word processor

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The Bravo word processor was an early WYSIWYG text-editing program developed at Xerox PARC for the Alto computer, pioneering many concepts used in modern word processing.

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instanceOf WYSIWYG text editor
computer program
word processor
category Xerox Alto software NERFINISHED
historic word processing software
computingPlatform Xerox Alto personal computer NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedFor office document creation
technical document preparation
developer Xerox PARC NERFINISHED
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center NERFINISHED
displayModel page-oriented view
what-you-see-is-what-you-get layout
feature WYSIWYG editing
cut and paste operations
keyboard shortcuts
menus
mouse-based text selection
multiple fonts
on-screen formatting
scrolling text windows
styled text
genre word processing software
hardwareRequirement Xerox Alto keyboard NERFINISHED
bitmapped display
mouse
hasRole pioneer in graphical word processing
historicalPeriod early personal computing era
inception 1970s
influenced Apple Lisa word processor NERFINISHED
Gypsy word processor
Microsoft Word NERFINISHED
Xerox Star word processing software NERFINISHED
modern WYSIWYG word processors
influencedBy early text editors at Xerox PARC
inResearchContext Xerox PARC user interface experiments
locationOfDevelopment Palo Alto, California NERFINISHED
notableFor being one of the first WYSIWYG word processors
pioneering modern word processing concepts
operatingSystem Xerox Alto operating system NERFINISHED
partOf Xerox Alto software environment NERFINISHED
platform Xerox Alto NERFINISHED
programmingLanguage BCPL NERFINISHED
supports document editing with immediate visual feedback
formatted text printing
multiple pages per document
userInterface graphical user interface

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Xerox Alto software Bravo word processor