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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by swdunlop on Monday October 17, 2011 @08:01PM (#3123070)
(I know one award-winning SF novelist who uses an obscure British word processor, originally for CP/M and MS-DOS)

This is not so exotic; how many of us still adhere to vi in an xterm when we are in "time to stop fooling around and work" mode. ;)

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Re:The Setup: William Gibson by Semiapies on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:35PM (#3127029)
vi and emacs are products that are still upgraded and distributed; obscure word processors by shuttered companies are a different thing.
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