EZ Word was a word processor

Word processor

A word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....

 developed as part of the Andrew User Interface System, a user-interface research project jointly done by both IBM

IBM

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 and the Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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. Originally developed for UNIX

Unix

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 systems, it was the first graphical word processor available for Linux

Linux

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Many people found the user interface quirky and difficult to learn. The program never really caught on, and the Andrew project stopped developing software in 1997. The last version of the AUIS suite, version 8.0, was never fully debugged, but is free software

Free software

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 available under a BSD free software license.