Quote:
Originally Posted by murg
I made it a point to avoid WordStar in my career (which pre-dates it).
And I succeeded!
I always viewed as one of those programs that becomes popular for no apparent reason, and then stays popular because no one wants to change.
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Wordstar DOS (I started at WS 3.0) the original with dot command markup?
or the later
Windows versions?
All the early DOS stuff ran on 8080 processors with up to 640K RAM
IIRC the big players were
Word Processing: Word, Wordperfect, Wordstar
Spreadsheet: 123, Supercalc, Multiplan, Quattro
RDatabase: dBase, Paradox, (RBase? brain fade
)