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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by keithpeter on Monday October 17, 2011 @06:29PM (#3122777) 

      "obscure British word processor, originally for CP/M and MS-DOS, now supported as a hobby project by one of the former developers -- the company is long since bust."
Charlie, I'm racking my brains here. Ami Pro? Pipedream (no, that was Acorn Archimedes, and don't we wish Thatcher had supported that particular lame duck).

And how on earth does the revered author get the words out to publishers? OCR and an Olivetti might be easier...

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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by StrawberryFrog on Monday October 17, 2011 @07:01PM (#3122879)
I'd guess WordStar. Or failing that, WordPerfect.

WordPerfect was more commonly seen, but WordStar fits the description of "Runs on CP/M and is not supported" better.

Edit: See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#Abandonment

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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by cstross on Monday October 17, 2011 @08:22PM (#3123150)
Nope: Protext.

http://www.tigerteam.co.uk/protext/

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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by keithpeter on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:59AM (#3124468)
NC100 - got it
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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by 2mur on Monday October 17, 2011 @08:26PM (#3123162)
George R.R. Martin writes on WordStar.

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/1220865-talking-a...

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