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GRRM writes using WordStar:

https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/how-george-r-r-martin-write...

and this is probably the reason anybody even remembers it. Because when he actually WAS writing, you had a whole new generation of up-and-coming writers listening to him wax poetic about the great WordStar

Anybody in the mainstream average user world.

For in the tech world, tons of people who used computers in the 80s and 90s remember WordStar regardless of Martin, there are blogs, cloning attempts, etc. Just like there are fans of WordPerfect, the Atari, Amiga, and others.

and there are TENS of us!!

Just saying. Him waxing poetic about it during a time when the watercooler topic was what happened last night on GoT is the reason that anybody else even recognizes the name.

I would’ve found that more impressive a decade ago.

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