In 1982 the developers ported the program to the IBM PC as WordPerfect 2.20, continuing the version numbering of the Data General series. WordPerfect 1.0 represented a significant departure from the previous Wang standard for word processing.
of Orem, Utah to market the program to other Data General users. The two founded Satellite Systems International, Inc.
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Bastian and Ashton kept the rights to the WordPerfect software they produced. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General minicomputer system in 1979.