Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now even the most juvenile authors can easily access this classic tool thanks to DOS emulation and a repackaging effort by Robert Sawyer.
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer uses WordStar 7.0 to write his award-winning stories. The word processor was last updated in December 1992, meaning it has been “defunct” for decades and could be considered abandonware. While there is no legal consensus about how such software and copyright laws should interact, Sawyer is confident enough that he can provide the last WordStar version for DOS to other people through the internet.
Källa: Classic word processor WordStar gets a new “plug-and-play” release by one of its most loyal users
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