Rashumon
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| Rashumon | |
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| Original author(s) | HarmonySoft |
| Initial release | 1989 |
| Stable release | "student" version
/ 1995 |
| Operating system | Amiga OS |
| Platform | Amiga |
| Type | Word processor |
| Website | http://www.rashumon.com/ |
Rashumon was a multilingual graphical word processor developed for the Amiga computer by an Israel-based company called HarmonySoft (founded by Michael Haephrati in 1989)[1] and was sold until after the demise of Commodore in 1994 (a lower-priced "student" version was released in 1995[2]).[3] Rashumon had particular support for Hebrew, Arabic[4][5] and Russian as well as English, and it could send its text to speech synthesis in English.[6]
Rashumon was the only word processor for the Amiga having the ability to create and edit multilingual documents.[7][8] Rashumon printed using Type 1 PostScript fonts[9] and it also supported Intellifont.[10]
Rashumon was named after a Japanese movie which had four different characters giving different versions of the same event. Amiga User International commented that this name seemed appropriate for a wordprocessor designed to support multiple languages.[11]
