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I think the timeline is a little different as I remember it.

DOS was dominant between 1981-1990. I lived through those days and remember them fondly.

In 1990, Windows 3.0 happened, and the world changed.

For the worse, if you were doing heavy-duty word processing. It's not that there were no usable WYSIWYG word processors, but even the star of the show (AmiPro) was rather limited in its feature set compared to WordPerfect, and they were really competitors to LetterPerfect and the like: great for simple text editing, but templating, macros, and so forth were toys at best - and you really needed to pay close attention to the maxim "the computer you want costs $5000 and will be obsolete when delivered" if you didn't want to type too far ahead of the screen.

AmiPro was _not_ a good wordprocessor. It had fatal flaws, like visible redrawing the entire paragraph when changing a single character or adding a single character. And the more text you wrote, the slower it would become, because it would format everything from start; even after a page or two, the delay would be noticeable.

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