Tony Krueger, RIP
Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the game Chip’s Challenge to Windows for the Windows Entertainment Pack. But that’s probably not the code he wrote that touched the most people.
Tony worked on Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, then on Word for OS/2 and Word for Mac, then returned to Word 6.0 and several versions beyond that. He probably holds the record for “most versions of Word shipped.”
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Tony made the spell checker much more unobtrusive so that it didn’t interfere with your foreground work. And when it found a problem, instead of waiting for you to trigger a spell check, it immediately drew red squiggles under potentially-misspelled words (and later green squiggles under potential grammatical errors).
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Reminds me of the Moylan Arrow. Great to learn about the people behind small things which have significant benefits for so many.
Sad to hear this. I spent many years of my life using Word for DOS, and later for OS/2.
A great product and incredibly lightweight by today's standards. You could actually run it on a PC without a hard drive, as I did for my first two years of college. The Word software on one floppy and my document on another.
Word for DOS also included an incredibly robust tutorial on a few additional floppies. Which worked better than the manual for teaching how to use the product.
