Amí
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Ami was the name of a word processing program marketed by Lotus Software in the late 1980's. Shortly after its introduction, the name of the program was changed "AmiPro."
AmiPro was a significant competitor to Microsoft Word and WordPerfect Corporation's WordPerfect during the late 1980's and early 1990's. AmiPro had a look and feel that was similar to the Windows versions of those two competing products. The developers of AmiPro introduced a number of innovations in AmiPro that were later adopted by other Word Processers. The notable feature of the Windows version of AmiPro was the colorful SmartIcons.
At the time that AmiPro was introduced, the word processing market was dominated by WordPerfect. Both AmiPro and Microsoft Word made inroads into WordPerfect's market share. Eventually Microsoft Word overtook WordPerfect as the dominant player and AmiPro was discontinued.
IBM, the present owner of the Lotus mark, has replaced it with Lotus Word Pro. The 16-bit Ami Pro had significant limitations, most notably that it was unable to display the bottom of one page and the top of the next at the same time. The limitations were so severe that Lotus completely re-wrote the program from scratch instead of porting the 16-bit program to 32-bit Windows.
