Excellence (software)

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Excellence was a word processor for the Amiga computer, created by Micro-Systems Software as a follow-up to their earlier Scribble! word processor. [1] The primary author was Steve Pagliarulo. [2] It was one of the first WYSIWYG word processors for the Amiga.

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