Joe Guthridge

Joe Guthridge is best known for his contributions to the development of a family of Word Processing software that began in the 1980s. Software from that original work is still being used as of 201x.[1][2]

Guthridge gained recognition for his work in an important standardization area.[3]

Recognition

Guthridge was presented with Microsoft's Windows Pioneer Award in 1994. This was a recognition by Bill Gates of seven non-Microsoft employees who made important contributions to the development of Windows.[4]

Samna Ami

Joe Guthridge led the development of Samna Amí, the first Windows word processor, which was subsequently renamed Lotus Word Pro somewhat after Samna was acquired by Lotus Software.

Among the strengths of Ami Pro, successor to Samna Ami, were scientific writing, including equation editing.[5]

Lotus Ami

Even after the internal file format of the original .sam evolved to .lwp (Lotus Word-Processing), Microsoft and Wordperfect supported exporting to this product,[6] which was described in a review as having a mail-merge "much faster than Word, somewhat faster than WordPerfect"[7]

Honorable mention

An international study about gridlock during rush hours cited Joe Guthridge's opinion that "evening rush hours are usually worse than their morning equivalent, because at the start of the day people are intent on getting to work, while on the way home they often make one or two traffic-slowing stops."[8]

References
  1. saw in a Blog re civil engineering, need to find it again
  2. also: "Envelope Printing Problems In Lotus Ami Pro". January 10, 2018. "Cause: Conflict between Program/Operating System/Driver Settings" (followed by) changes to be made "in the Print Envelope Options dialog box."
  3. Laurie Flynn (February 5, 1990). "WPMA Acts to Improve Compatibility: Windows, OS/2 Developers Target Five Areas Needing Clarification". InfoWorld. "For moving text through the Clipboard, developers are working on a consistent way to indicate paragraph breaks, according to Joe Guthridge, group manager of research and development at Samna Corp. Various ways of transferring Postscript images using the Clipboard are still under discussion... The existence of multiple versions of RTF has also caused confusion for developers and limited how well their programs work together. However, Microsoft has already committed to promoting only one version from now on, according to Guthridge."
  4. Jeff Raikes, Group Vice President. "Microsoft Information Worker Business".
  5. David Bridges (1993). "Equation Editing with Ami Pro, Word, and Wordperfect: Computers in Physics, 7:444". doi:10.1063/1.4823198. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "In Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect for Windows, what file ..." January 18, 2018. "Both Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect can save and convert files into ..."
  7. "Ami Pro for Windows". InfoWorld (Vol. 16, No. 6). February 7, 1994. p. 73.
  8. Jim Motavalli (September 23, 2016). "In L.A. and Other Gridlocked Cities, Rush-Hour Traffic Never Reaches the Speed Limit".


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