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Originally Posted by latepaul
Really? Do you actually use any 30 year old software? If you do then you've either managed to install it on modern hardware - which can be a challenge - or have kept old hardware going, or have had to install an emulator. In addition you'll probably have to be very careful to keep an installable copy of the media around, which actually means not the original media itself unless you're willing to rely on old floppy drives. And of course you have to live with any bugs that may exist, including ones that were not relevant at the time but are exposed by fast multitasking multi-cpu systems.
All of which is doable and may be worth the effort for you and GRRM, but surely you can see why others might find all that effort a 'problem'?
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Obviously, if people are using old applications they've found a way to make them work, haven't they? (I use dBase for DOS 5.0 and WordStar 7.0 in DosBox -- both a bit over 20 years old, not 30, but still ...) So why is this any skin off
anyone else's nose? What difference does it make? Or do you think everyone has to do everything the same way? WordStar is (mostly was) a great word processor -- some people still love it. And DosBox is really not that difficult to set up.