Thread: George RR Martin: 'Why I still use DOS'
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Old 05-21-2014, 01:52 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
It makes sense to me that Martin uses Wordstar because of the keyboard shortcuts. However there are modern wordprocessors which allow custom shortcuts AND rich text.
Wordstar DOS did not use rich text, it used Markup (those dot codes in the source
(I still have my WS5.5 5.25" floppies and manuals, just no surviving drives/equipment )
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