Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!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: 16 May 2014 06:06:36 GMT Lines: 47 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 RxDhysZJuurTxNKqpcQ3tAyDexXUbNqtJQCV6xFEXoWVCQbCa/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:hV72X0GhGyL8VboE+ke6txNzUw8= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2853 On Thu, 15 May 2014 23:31:03 +0000, Lewis wrote: > In message > Bob Eager wrote: >> On Thu, 15 May 2014 15:59:39 +0000, Lewis wrote: > >>> In message >>> Bob Eager wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> The lack of a TCP/IP stack is a bit of a problem. > >> It would be if there was such a lackl. There isn't. I have a DOS boot >> floppy here with TCP/IP on it. > > What version of DOS, and by whom? AS far as I know, MSFT never released > a TCP/IP stack for DOS. Even under Windows they used winsock (via raw > sockets) to fake TCP/IP. As far as I recall, it was IBM. And it was real TCP/IP. I have an old IBM portable set up with it, and can use FTp, etc. I even have a boot disk somewhere that will do "NETBIOS over TCP/IP". -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org