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I never used it much as a word processor, but WordStar was my favorite programming editor on CP/M. Of course that was long before the 1996 date of this article!
by Stratoscope 10y ago
I never used it much as a word processor, but WordStar was my favorite programming editor on CP/M. Of course that was long before the 1996 date of this article! I remember a few friends who also used it for their coding.
Sawyer's article hints at this: "An Interface Designed For Touch Typists".
So now I'm curious: anyone else out there who used WordStar as a programming editor back in the day?
- hollander 10y agoAs mentioned here, Borland Turbo Pascal used the Wordstar style of editing. I didn't use other languages as the time.
- shakna 10y agoI wrote some BASIC in nondocument mode, but it was my first computer, and my introduction to IT. (Aye, I'm a youngin who had the IBM PC port).
- jhallenworld 10y agoI used it as such under DOS (wrote 6800, 6809 and 8088 assembly language and C with Microsoft C 4.0). I wrote this emulator to allow me to use CP/M wordstar in Linux: https://github.com/jhallen/cpm https://github.com/jhallen/cpm Screen I/O just uses the terminal emulator and does not open another window. I'd like to see a DOS emulator that works like this.
- jacobush 10y agoDOSEmu at least used to have that mode IIRC
- juanre 10y agoIndeed. Pascal with WordStar on CP/M, running in my father's Osborne 1.
- howard941 10y agoI used Wordmaster for programming editing for as long as I could