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is this the word processor software that George RR Martin (and a few other authors) still uses on dos because modern alternative are all not good enough?
by fishywang 5y ago
is this the word processor software that George RR Martin (and a few other authors) still uses on dos because modern alternative are all not good enough?
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoNo, that’d be wordstar.
- fishywang 5y agooh. thank you.
- lproven 5y agoHi. Article author here. Robert Sawyer and George Martin are fans of WordStar. I supported it in the 1980s. It is a very clunky, awkward program by modern standards; that is why WordPerfect completely supplanted it. It is not freeware. However, if you want to try it, there is a free clone: http://wordtsar.ca/ http://wordtsar.ca/
- cout 5y agoI remember having to learn WordStar keyboard shortcuts for some IDE I used to use. What a pain. Good riddance.
- lproven 5y agoIt was a very common UI once -- now the Joe editor offers it, but I think the CP/M version of Borland Turbo Pascal had the same. I tend to agree with you. WordStar came before WYSIWYG or proportional-font printing, and it never really adapted to those things. By comparison, WordPerfect was a master of getting the absolute best out of any printer you might have -- its printer support was legendarily good.