WPS was DEC’s word processing system, developed for the 8/E with a VT50 terminal with special WPS keycaps replacing the standard keycaps, and widely used on the 1980’s vintage machines. It was heavily promoted on
the VT-78, and when the DECmates came out, DEC began to suppress knowledge that DECmates could run anything else. WPS-11 was a curious distributed system using a PDP-11 as a file server for a cluster of VT-78 WPS systems. DECmate/WPS Version 2.3 is available from DECUS for the DECmate II and DECmate III under the catalog entry DM0114.