WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
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WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
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Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#2Silly me.
I read that as Worldstar
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#3"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil. It was published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, and Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program. Starting with WordStar 4.0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau."
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#4"WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It dominated the market in the early and mid-1980s, succeeding the market leader Electric Pencil. It was published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, and Rob Barnaby was the sole author of th…
Yes. And it still is less annoying to use than some of its successors. (Your mileage is intended to vary.)
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#5+1 for the funny, glorious and mighty name.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#6Someone tell George RR Martin
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#7Someone tell George RR Martin
My thoughts exactly.
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#8Someone tell George RR Martin
WordTsar won’t run on DOS!
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#9Robert j. Sawyer is also a prominent wordstar diehard who ought to be interested in this project :) he wrote an interesting rationale for his use of wordstar. https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
I wonder if learning proper use of vim motions would cover most of these use cases today :)
Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
#10Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549189