Editing Ichitaro (word processor) (section)

=== Beginnings ===
JustSystems was founded in July 1979 by {{Nihongo|Hatsuko|初子}} and Kazunori Ukigawa, and was incorporated in June 1981. Kazunori worked at a subsidiary company of [[Toshiba]], and he was interested in Japanese-language computing. Toshiba released {{Ill|JW-10|ja}} in February 1979, the first word processor for the Japanese language, but it sold less than their business computers. He founded the company as a dealer of business computers, and they started selling Japanese language software. After the release of [[PC-8800 series|PC-8801]], they developed an invoicing software for it, which printed out estimations and invoices in Japanese. They demonstrated it at trade fairs, and received a positive response.<ref name="ichitaro_hist" />

When they contacted to [[ASCII Microsoft]] about a run-time license fee of the [[BASIC]] [[compiler]] used for their farm management software, ASCII had known JustSystem's Japanese software, so they asked JustSystems to develop a Japanese word processor software for [[NEC PC-100|PC-100]]. It was released as JS-WORD in 1983. It was followed by JS-WORD 2.0 ported for [[PC-9800 series|PC-9801]]. Both were published by ASCII under their name. JS-WORD featured mouse support and a graphical icon-based interface, but it resulted in poor performance.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=国友|first=正彦|year=1989|title=最新日本語入力FP対決 ATOK 7 VS VJE-β Ver.2.1|journal=[[ASCII (magazine)|ASCII]]|language=ja|volume=13|issue=9|pages=249–256|issn=0386-5428}}</ref> The jX-WORD for the [[IBM JX]] was released and in 1985, jX-WORD Taro was released for PC-9801. jX-WORD Taro was priced at ¥58,000, which was the middle price among Japanese word processor software, and sold 9,700 copies.<ref name="ichitaro_hist" /><ref name="monthlymicom_199202">{{Cite journal|year=1992|title=一太郎累計出荷本数|journal=マイコン|publisher=電波新聞社|volume=16|issue=2|pages=159|issn=0387-9593}}</ref>