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From: | sms |
Subject: | Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?! |
Date: | Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:16:29 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 |
On 8/15/2016 4:15 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
I was in a discussion on rec.bicycles.tech on the properties of the combination spanner (combination wrench) but as it happened the discussion drifted away across the Pacific to Easter Island, Russian history, and Word Star, perhaps the most successful of the early word processes. It was a monolithic program in assembly language and ran on the Z-80 processor, on the CP/M operating system. It was written by a guy named " John Robbins Barnaby", in four months. 137,000 lines of assembler code.
I was a Wordstar (DOS) guru.You can still run it using VDOS. Not sure about printing anything unless you could install a parallel port card that supports the legacy DOS addresses
Install VDOS <https://www.vdos.info/files/20160601/vDosSetup.exe>Install Wordstar <https://winworldpc.com/download/46C67977-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599>
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