From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: sms Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?! Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:16:29 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471281659 19850 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2016 17:20:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:16:38 -0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 19:20:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZLZG-0004o2-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:20:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZLZC-00028j-VQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:20:51 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b19e69e3a7bc706efffd74a96887f36b"; logging-data="10179"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vf+HSLVDOUeLWw07N9Yga" In-Reply-To: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 160815-0, 08/15/2016), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:84NK0wCEwKxMv7S+DSBC0HmOBVM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218736 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111145 Archived-At: On 8/15/2016 4:15 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I was in a discussion on rec.bicycles.tech on > the properties of the combination spanner > (combination wrench) but as it happened the > discussion drifted away across the Pacific to > Easter Island, Russian history, and > > Word Star, perhaps the most successful of > the early word processes. It was > a monolithic program in assembly language > and ran on the Z-80 processor, on the CP/M > operating system. It was written by a guy > named " John Robbins Barnaby", in four > months. 137,000 lines of assembler code. I was a Wordstar (DOS) guru. You can still run it using VDOS. Not sure about printing anything unless you could install a parallel port card that supports the legacy DOS addresses Install VDOS Install Wordstar