I was doing a hell of a lot of writing back then, and remember the old DOS-based word processors much like someone remembers having their wisdom teeth pulled. It was a painful process. But at least it ...

WordStar’s most recent claim to fame might be that it’s the word processing application on which George R.R. Martin is still not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. But many writers loved and still love ...

The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to the archiving efforts of one of its biggest fans—Hugo and ...

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In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

George R.R. Martin has created -- and killed -- beloved characters in his books and on screen. And he’s done it all running a computer program that’s older than many of his fans. Martin appeared on ...

So why does he use an ancient PC running DOS? Martin could afford a whole fleet of top-of-the-line machines, if that took his fancy. But it doesn’t. Instead, the author famously uses a DOS machine ...

The "Game of Thrones" author confesses on a chat show that he writes his best-selling books using WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine. So don't distract him! Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV ...