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WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"As testimony to how good WordStar is, even I became proficient at it and wrote a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories on it. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green, James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer Roberson, and Edo van Belkom continue to use WordStar for DOS as our writing tool of choice. On a WordStar-friendly keyboard (one with Control adjacent to the A key, or one that has been remapped using the SWITCH.COM utility mentioned earlier), changing between writing and editing modes is as simple as pivoting one's left pinkie.
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