Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.tele2net.at!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border01.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder01.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder02.ams.xsnews.nl!news.eurofeeds.com!not-for-mail From: sail0r Newsgroups: comp.misc Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 23:31:36 -0400 Message-ID: <2014051423313693857-sail0r@examplecom> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 X-Complaints-To: http://eurofeeds.com/abuse Organization: Eurofeeds.com Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 05:31:37 +0200 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2826 On 2014-05-14 09:52:55 +0000, RS Wood said: > The blogosphere is buzzing this week with the revelation[1] that George R.R. > Martin[2] , the much-admired author of the A Game of Thrones[3] and more, > actually does his writing on a DOS machine running the old, 1970s word > processor, Wordstar[4] . When I read that I wondered just how he got the files to his publisher? Is he running DOS in emulation and just otherwise emails the files? If not, does he snail mail them a floppy disk? Dial up to some remote machine? Anyone know?