Date   : Tue, 08 Jan 1991 15:48:19 GMT
From   : usc!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!qiclab!techbook!fzsitvay@ucsd.edu (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Need WordStar utility

In article <972@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Gun
Control is Hitting Your Target) writes:
>wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>
>
>> Aha! Some versions of WordStar supported direct write to screen
>>memory on the (few) machines that had screen memory as part of
>>system RAM. I suspect that setting the high bit is the way the
>>Osborne knew to highlight the current character.
>
>Yes and no.  
>
>No, WordStar for the Osborne 1 did not come configured for memory mapped
>video - I don't know why - it's orders of magnitude faster than going through
>a jillion layers of software.

   the memory mapped video on the osborne is somewhat strangely laid out,
and micropro never bothered to adapt the memory mapped version of wordstar.

   but soon pd text editors began showing up for the ozzy, such as vdo and
its successor, vde.  for a machine like a stock osborne, thay are actually
much better than wordstar.
 
   download them from a bbs near you.  vde ended at 2.66 (eric meyer still
does work on his PC version of vde, which is (INHO) the best text editor
available for msdos machines.  (it even runs on a dec rainbow))  but is
very stable and has no major bugs.

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