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A Writer's Word Processor
by Robert J. Sawyer
Copyright 1990 and 1996 by Robert J. Sawyer.
To download the full final version of WordStar — WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D — along with plug-and-play MS-DOS emulator packages for running it under Windows, see: WordStar 7.0 Archives And for why I continue to use and love WordStar well into the 21st century, see below.
"Sawyer's long post [below] about WordStar is extremely insightful." —Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
"A fine word processing program called WordStar. It never crashed, and it never failed, and I loved it immoderately." —Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
"As testimony to how good WordStar is, even I became proficient at it and wrote a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories on it. A great system, especially compared to MS Word." —Edo van Belkom, author of Scream Queen
"I am happy to greet the geniuses [Rob Barnaby and Seymour Rubinstein, the creators of WordStar] who made me a born-again writer. Having announced my retirement in 1978, I now have six books in the works and two [probables], all through WordStar." —Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
"I have a secret weapon: I use WordStar. It does everything I want a word-processing program to do." —George R.R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones
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