Re: [SLUG] ZX-80/computer history

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 18:40:55 EDT


On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:37:49AM -0400, Norbert Cartagena wrote:

> Didn't WordStar become StarOffice eventually?

That's what we get for letting these young whipper-snappers on this
list, dag-nabbit!

WordStar is/was an entirely different thing from StarOffice. Some people
swore by its arcane keystroke commands, which aren't/weren't near as bad
as emacs. WordStar was the king until Word Perfect came along. Now it's
just a footnote in computer history, along with the DEC Rainbow, Pong,
and Lotus 123. <sniff>

Paul



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