WYSIWYG

In Fall of 1974, Charles Simonyi, a young Stanford Ph.D from Hungary, refines a program that allows a user to view a graphical display of how a document will appear exactly as printed out. The document is shown with underlining, bold face, italics, and fonts of various styles and sizes. This capability is dubbed as "What You See Is What You Get" - WYSIWYG.
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