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Sci-fi writer and WordStar lover re-releases the cult DOS app for free
"Compared to it, Microsoft Word is pure madness"—Anne Rice.
Why would Sawyer—and Michael Chabon and Anne Rice and Arthur C. Clarke and James Gunn—keep using a DOS program, decades past its last update, with quite a few workarounds needed for modern systems? WordStar puts powerful commands near your strongest fingers and makes navigating text, bookmarking, and leaving unpublished notes for yourself far easier than WordPerfect, Word, or almost anything since. The history of WordMaster, WordStar, NewWord, and their offshoots and intermixing is fascinating, with a hospital bedside power-grab, lawsuits, and names like Corel and Xoom you haven't heard in some time.
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