Nostalgic LRPD sez: "Somewhere out there, a Big Cheetah is still running WordStar and

Post #427,364 by Ashton 1/31/19 4:38:25 PM 1/31/19 4:38:25 PM Reply	Nostalgic LRPD sez: "Somewhere out there, a Big Cheetah is still running WordStar and extremely anal bench-marks.." WordStar: 99% of what you ever needed to write WORDS: in 58 KILOBYTES [er, 8-bit ones to boot.] {{sigh}}^5-Gⁿ OK I'll go quietly ...
Post #427,374 by Andrew Grygus 2/1/19 1:55:52 AM 2/1/19 1:55:52 AM Reply	No, Wordstar was never adequate. It was a single buffer word processor, one document at a time. I could NEVER live with that. There were 8-bit DOS multi-buffer word processors based on emacs in those days, and that's what I used. Freely cut and paste from one document to another. An added feature, not obvious at the time, is that they were "markup language" processors - no attempt at wysiwyg. Since I learned to visualize pages as I wrote them, embedding the markup as I wrote, writing in html just came naturally. I have never used a wysiwyg html tool, and I can't stand them. They're clumsy, and write junky code.
Post #427,384 by drook 2/1/19 4:15:45 PM 2/1/19 4:15:45 PM Reply	Still prefer WordPerfect to Word thanks to "view codes" -- Drew
Post #428,715 by CRConrad 5/1/19 5:07:35 PM 5/1/19 5:07:35 PM Reply	I still miss JerryP. Sure, those Chaos Manor columns were both rambling and braggy (at best "humble-brags", but usually not sufficiently "humble" for that), but they sure were fun; and (at least in the beginning) I learned a lot from them -- if nothing else, then at least what to aspire to. And he always was a rabid right-wing nut, and in the last few years it felt like he went yet a few steps right of that. But still... Idunno, must be my weakness for MilSF. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #428,783 by crazy 5/5/19 9:47:26 AM 5/5/19 9:47:26 AM Reply	Agreed I wrote a column for my local PC group, called "All at 'C'". Is was a mixture of hardware/software review, C programming, and office politics. Patterned after "Computing in Chaos Manor". This was late CP/M early PC days. And yes, I wrote it in Wordstar to start. Someone in the group submitted them to a user group conference during Comdex in Vegas and I won some strangely titled "Best of Intergalactic" award. No humble in this brag.

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