Editing Framework (office suite) (section)

=== Background ===
[[Epson QX-10#ValDocs|ValDocs]], an even earlier integrated suite, and actually comparable to the [[Macintosh 128K|original Macintosh]] of 1984 and [[Apple Lisa]] of 1982, was produced by [[Seiko Epson|Epson]], a complete integrated work station that ran on the previous-generation [[Zilog Z80]] CPU and [[CP/M]] operating system, with a [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) and "[[WYSIWYG]]" typography on the monitor and printing. Despite several iterations, ValDocs was too slow on the hardware that it was released on.

A few months before Framework, its close rival [[Lotus Symphony for DOS|Lotus Symphony]] was released.

Framework offered all of the above ValDocs' functionality in the first all-in-one package to run on any PC platform.

''Programmers at Work'' credits [[Robert Carr (Programmer)|Robert Carr]] as the designer and principal developer of Framework.<ref>{{cite book| first=Susan M | last=Lammers | title=Programmers at Work | publisher=[[Microsoft Press]] |year=1986 | page=208 |chapter = Bob Carr |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/programmersatwor00lamm_0/page/208/mode/2up |chapter-url-access=registration |isbn=0-914845-71-3}}</ref>