28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
2:04 p.m.
On 28 Nov 2006 at 13:35, Warren Wolfe wrote:
WordStar collects a great deal of derision now,
but when it came
out, I thought it just might have been developed by an extra-terrestrial
civilization, and delivered to us poor schmucks to help us crawl out of
the muck and become civilized ourselves. (I didn't have much experience
with decent software at the time.)
The WS keystrokes are so engrained in my consciousness that I use the
same keystrokes in my own personal editor and use Joe when I'm on
*nix. To a touch typist, they made tons of sense--being able to
position the cursor without having your hands leave the home keys.
One MicroPro product that never gained much respect was WordStar 2000-
-it really was a huge improvement over the original, yet few people
used it. I have tons of my own correspondence still on WS2K.
A good friend still maintains his contacts list as a DataStar
database, running under CP/M 2.2 emulation on his XP-equipped PC.
Cheers,
Chuck