Thread: George RR Martin: 'Why I still use DOS'
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Old 05-26-2014, 12:45 PM   #125
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
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.
vi and emacs, both of which predate wordstar by several years, are still in use by many people. They may not come pre-installed so much any more, but they are trivial to install on any decent OS.
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