My good friend Seymour Rubinstein, a pioneer in the IT industry ("“The guy who invented the personal computer industry.” according to John C. Dvorak), will be speaking in Berkeley on Wednesday January 18, from noon to 1:30 pm. His personal website is http://seymourrubinstein.wordpress.com/, and details about the talk tomorrow are at http://www.berkeleystartupcluster.net/events. The venue for the event is the Berkeley Rep Theater, at 2020 Addison St in Berkeley.
Seymour once snuck up on me and peered over my shoulder to see what I was doing, and asked "You have windows, why are you still using DOS prompts?"
And I replied, "because the only editor I can find that still uses WordStar key sequences runs under DOS". He was quite complimented, and went into a whole explanation of how the key sequences were chosen....
Charlie Anderson wrote: I remember when MicroPro was #1, or close to it.
There were several *Star products bundled with the first personal computer I was able to buy, the Sanyo MB-550, in 1984.... WordStar, CalcStar, DataStar...
My fingers still reflexively use those WordStar command sequences, and fortunately I have edtiors everywhere that I need them that still understand those sequences. Emacs, VI, and the others never made the same lasting impression on my fingers.