Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

What ever happened to WordStar?

by Rob - December 19th, 2007.
Filed under: Uncategorized.

What ever happened to WordStar, the grand old word-processing program for CP/M and MS-DOS? And what about its clone, NewWord, published by NewStar Software?

John C. Dvorak explains:

What ever happened to WordStar?

What ever happened to NewWord?

I still use WordStar for DOS 7.0 (and have been a WordStar user for 24 years, as of this week!), and love it for all these reasons. WordStar 7.0 was built on the NewWord codebase.

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