... and you're worried that XP support is ending!
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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There are times when progress is there for it's own sake (Windows 8, anyone?) and there are times when progress should be welcomed. He's still using WordStar by choice? Oh, dear - that's like using Notepad for C# rather than Visual Studio. It works...but...you miss out on a lot of useful stuff that really does make life easier.
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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Right on dude! Fight the power!
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I also used to do Edlin. After a while we got a text editor called MultiEdit, which was so much better. One of our Unix programmers asked if there was a version of Multiedit for Unix - I said, no, but I can get you a copy of Vi for DOS!
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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On the computer that he used for browsing he probably uses AOL?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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If you read the article it does make sense though. For a given value of sense. He actually states that he doesn't want nor need any auto-correction or spill chicken Ann that what he rights is watt he wants.
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He actually states that he doesn't want nor need any auto-correction or spill chicken Ann that what he rights is watt he wants.
Auto correct is not mandatory I fear he just doesn't know how or want to use the newer system for some reason.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]
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Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]
Wordstar has (or had) a spellchecker available called Spellstar. Most word processing software with built in spell/grammar checking allows you to switch it off, so this argument is spurious
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Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel." Or pick the write won... :rolleyes: Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]
So an article about spill chicken didn't pick up the mistake. :laugh:
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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What a pretentious oik. He could just switch off the auto correct features. I think it more likely he does it so he can say he does it. I bet it annoys his publisher!
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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Remember the WordStar key sequence to quit a document without saving? It was Ctrl-K, Q, Y Any other keys hit and the document would not be lost. Reason I remember this so well? My kitten walking across the keyboard has fixed it in my memory for all (my) time! To this day, I still wonder if I hadn't shouted "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" would he have hit the 'Y' with that last paw? :(
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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Why get rid of something that works? I have a first-gen iPad, and I don't want a new one as the one I have works perfectly fine for what I use it for.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
until your favorite app is upgraded and will not be backward compatible!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I also used to do Edlin. After a while we got a text editor called MultiEdit, which was so much better. One of our Unix programmers asked if there was a version of Multiedit for Unix - I said, no, but I can get you a copy of Vi for DOS!
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I can remember the time when I was more into hardware than software and used to use 286 PCs for CAD and the like. Entirely DOS based. We asked for a word processor or text editor and the sysadmin asked "What do engineers need an editor for? What's wrong with Edlin?" Needless to say when we heard that one, we went and found some piece of freeware off the front of a magazine...
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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Good on him! ;P
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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"Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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I guess it's still a step up from a typewriter.
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"Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi
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A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!
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I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A![^]
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He makes a good point. Someone should introduce him to
vim.Jeremy Falcon
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A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!
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