[GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

[Evan Leibovitch]

And... to round out your GUI-free desktop: Lotus 1-2-3, natively ported.
https://github.com/taviso/123elf

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56


On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 12:01 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2022-09-25 22:59, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> >
> > I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I did
> > a search and found out there is a project called WordTsar which is
> > supposed to be WordStar for the 21st century.
>
> WordStar hung on for years. An author friend of mine was distraught when
> Microsoft Word removed the ability to use WordStar keys. It was
> surprisingly recently, too.
>
> WordTsar looks surprisingly comprehensive. I'm a little surprised it's a
> graphical application, but the developer has their reasons.
>
> I've run MS Word 5.5 (the DOS version that MS released for free for Y2K
> compliance reasons) and Protext under dosemu quite successfully. The
> first version of Protext I had was on a 16K EPROM for the Amstrad CPC
> (Z80) computer. It loaded instantly, and was a great tool for
> undistracted writing.
>
> cheers,
>   Stewart
>
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