WPS-8
WPS-8 was the name of a Word Processing System sold by Digital Equipment Corporation for use with their PDP-8 processors (including the VT78, VT278 "DECmate", and PC278 "DECmate-II" and "DECmate-III" system-in-a-terminal systems.
WPS-8 supported near WYSIWYG editing using a 24 row by 80 or 132 column screen. A ruler was used to indicate the text alignment and tab stops for any given portion of the text. Printing was to any of several different letter-quality daisy wheel printers including a DEC variant of the Diablo 630.
WPS-8 normally ran from a single floppy diskette and user data could be stored on the system diskette or additional data-only diskettes. Up to four diskette drives were supported in a single system.
The system also supported the creation of data tables, the sorting of these data tables, arithmetic calculations using this data, and a mail-merge operation using this data and the arithmetic results. It managed all that on a 12-bit, 1.2-