[Zunaid]

Advent of Bangla Software:

http://www.bpedia.org/S_0449.php

Table Bengali Software (1984-2002)

Software Name	Year launched	Developer
Shahid Lipi 1, k	1984 January	Saif Ud Doha Shahid
Mainul Lipi 1, k	1986	Mainul Islam
Abaho 2, k	1988 November	Automation Engineers
Bijoy 1, 3, k	1988 December	Ananda Computers
Onirban 2, 3, k	1990 February	Onirban
Barna 2, p	1990 February	Safe Works
Basundhara 1, 3, k	1992 February
Barnana 3, k	1993 February
Jatiyo 3, k	1993 June	Government
Prashikashabda 3, k	1994 February	Proshika
Lekhoni 1, 3, p	1994 December
Asha 3, k	1994 December
Prabartan 3, k	1994 December	Computers Srvices
Orcosoft Borno 3, p *	1998 June	Orcosoft, USA
Adarsha Bangla 3, p *	1999	Adarsha Bangla Technol.
Bhasha Saynik 3, m	1999	MicroTech
Duranta Bangla 3, m	1999	United Computers
Natural Bangla 3, p	1999	CDSIT
Lekhok 3, p	1999 December	Protivasoft, USA
Bangla2000 3, p *	2002 June	BornoSOft,USA
Ekushey 3, k	2001	Altruists, UK
Bangla word 3, p	2002	Bangla Software Group
1 Macintosh, 2 DOS, 3 Windows. k Keyboard Driver, p Word Processor, m Visual keyboard (Typing by mouse click)

The Onirban crew were good friends of mine. Onirban was the first windows based software while Bijoy was for Macs.

But all of these are preceded by the pioneering Shaheed Lipi.

Yours truly also developed a "Bangla Wordprocessor" for my undergraduate thesis at BUET - 1988.

Development of a Bangla Wordprocessor: AMORE. Rajibul Akhter, Zunaid Kazi and Rezaur Rahman. Undergraduate Thesis, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 1988