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Originally Posted by ThomasMcKean
That book cover yew see under my name to the left... I wrote most of it on WordStar using a Kaypro 4/84 CP/M computer. The book went on to win a literary achievement award and it got me on Oprah.
But that a was a while ago, back when I couldn't afford anything decent. Still, if nothing else it proves that WordStar was a capable processor. The way they programmed overlays to fit the entire program into 64K was nothing short of brilliant.
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I could out-type Wordstar in CPM but that was a limitation of the hardware I was using. Wordstar was fast.
As I remember it, they hired a new CEO from a big name company when Wordstar was the wordprocessor and he laid off the programming staff. Something about how they wanted a permanent job writing code and he wasn't going to waste the money.
So along came MSDOS and Word Perfect, which kept their programmers working to stay ahead of the technology and Wordstar drifted into history. I hope that doesn't happen to eReader but it doesn't look good.