Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Wordstar on DOS still rocks Date: 15 May 2014 07:02:57 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <2014051423313693857-sail0r@examplecom> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 0KAi4W2xmziNnAzaUTIxsg8Yk8XOcTbDi+HnXmMD2iHzdOjOSP Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y6xnW1p47X5qOjm2QNd1fA9x/7A= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2828 On Wed, 14 May 2014 23:31:36 -0400, sail0r wrote: > 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? No reason why he couldn't email from DOS. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org