PARC, now part of SRI, coined the phrase to describe cut-and-paste bit-mapped editing: What You See Is What You Get (also known as “wizsy-wig”). That year, PARC also demonstrated the seminal Bravo word processing program (which led to Microsoft Word) and device-independent imaging (which led to Page Description Languages and influenced the subsequent design of Postscript).
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