From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 14:21:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29318 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (ns1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29313 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomma@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h016b.s86b1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.1.107] (may be forged)) by smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15011; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com [134.177.110.46]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA18463; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrera.engwest (carrera.engwest.baynetworks.com) by fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) Received: from localhost by carrera.engwest (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA11953; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:17:59 -0700 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Sep 1998 22:49:41 +0200" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92 on Emacs 19.28 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980910141759D.thomma@baynetworks.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:17:59 -0700 From: Tamiji Homma X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 24 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > WordStar ripoff. Anybody ever used WordStar? It used to be THE text > processor on the IBM PC platform, and just about every editor written > for the PC until the early nineties was either a WordStar clone or had > a WordStar compatibility mode. I have used ws.com for CP/M 8080(IIRC, it was version 0.9) whose size is only 26KB. It was a wonderful full screen oriented editor in 1981 or 1982 running on CP/M 80. After some new releases, ws.com got much bigger and did reloading *.OVR(?) file when you ask WordStart to do something difficult. I started disliking WordStar when it gets bigger as most people do. However we could have enough programming tools fitting in one 8 inch floopy diskette. Anywhere I can find a CP/M machine, I could hack. The 8 inch floopy diskette used to cost about $10 per diskette in Japan. I have several friends who still use WordStar key binding in Emacs today. I guess they are still in love with WordStar... I'm not. Tammy PS: I am ed user when I'm in trouble :-) booting single user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message