Sprint

Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987. Sprint originally appeared as the "FinalWord" application, developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, and Brian Hess at Mark of the Unicorn - a company (headquartered in Cambridge, MA) which is now better known for its music software products. As FinalWord, the package met with some success: for example, the manuals o... more

Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987. Sprint originally appeared as the "FinalWord" application, developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, and Brian Hess at Mark of the Unicorn - a company (headquartered in Cambridge, MA) which is now better known for its music software products. As FinalWord, the package met with some success: for example, the manuals of the Lotus software package were written on it, as was Marvin Minsky's book The Society of Mind. FinalWord was renamed Sprint when it was acquired by Borland, which added a new user interface, new manuals, and features to the application. The editor speed was considered blazing at the time, running with no delays on machines as slow as 8 megahertz. This was the time of European development for Borland: SideKick and Turbo Pascal had been founded in Denmark; and the management of the European subsidiary comprised former Micropro France managers... less