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		redthrowaway on Oct 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Microsoft Word must die Hell, George R.R. Martin uses WordStar 4.0 in DOS. You don't need anything fancy to put chars in a text file.

cstross on Oct 12, 2013 [–]

That may be part of why he writes relatively slowly. (WordStar doesn't exactly provide support for refactoring huge, complex structured documents ...)

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