That’s not a great sentence - it’s kind of wordy and repetitious. How did we survive in the days before every last one of us had access to word processors and computers on our respective desks? (It wasn’t that long ago.) Consider this sentence: Some of us are old enough to recall life before word processors. Notepad Plugin Manager (old repo) Notepad Plugin Manager deprecated - now on. The program is TextEdit, and it call s the Applications folder home. Before running out to buy Microsoft Word (or another industrial-strength and expensive) word processing program for your Mac, remember that Apple includes a respectable word processor with OS X. Minimalist, user friendly, and very efficient word processing application for Mac OS X that provid.