Re: New WiFi adapter

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 6/7/25 4:37 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 02:42:38 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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joe can emulate Wordstar.

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That's what I said.
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Wordstar assumes an 80x25 character screen.

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Depends upon which version is your reference point.  WordStar 7 for DOS
(the last DOS version, by the way) will use larger than 80x25 character
screens.  I used it (WS7) for a good many years running (IIRC) in 80x50
character mode, first under DesqView on top of DOS plus QEMM386 then
later in Dosemu on Linux.

 
I still have WorStar 6.0 running on this linux box in dosemu.  Years ago I
found a hack to boost it to a 50 line display.  Have no idea now how/what
that was.  The only kink is that the top 80x25 display is one color and the
bottom 80x26-50 are default.  I guess I can live with that....
 
I started out with WordStar ?.?? on a Sanyo MBC-1000 CPM box somewhere
around 1981.  Great times.

 
 
  Not gonna diss WordStar - used it on CP/M and x86.
  Not super-capable, but usually capable ENOUGH if
  you didn't need typesetting effects.

Newer WordStar's, just like all the other word processors of the time,
gradually added on more and more "typesetting effects".  None of them
ever rivaled true typesetting programs, but they all added enough that
one could do a passing job for the most part.