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I don't know how it did it, but the old DOS version of MS word actually displayed bold/italic/underline in the DOS terminal. It wasn't WYSIWYG but the display was a bit nicer than Wordstar.

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For all the 80s (before the first version for Windows) the terminal was the only thing out there, plus the graphic modes. I think that bold/italic/underline only existed in the graphic mode version (EGA.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word

Ha the DOS terminal, that thing where the fullscreen button wouldn't work and you have to right click -> properties -> layout -> change the window size manually until you have something that work ok.

At least, they have fix it in the most recent version of windows ....

I imagine the OP means the dos interface.

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