Ryan Reed reports that when most Game of Thrones fans imagine George R.R. Martin writing his epic fantasy novels, they probably picture the author working on a futuristic desktop (or possibly carving his words onto massive stones like the Ten Commandments). But the truth is that Martin works on an outdated DOS machine using '80s word processor WordStar 4.0, as he revealed during an interview on Conan. 'I actually like it,' says Martin. 'It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. I don't want a capital. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital. I know how to work the shift key.' 'I actually have two computers,' Martin continued. 'I have a computer I browse the Internet with and I get my email on, and I do my taxes on. And then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine, not connected to the Internet.'
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday May 15 2014, @11:02PM
They're not that much more difficult than WS and run on any modern *nix box. I get his attitude 100%, when using Word I seem to spend as much time swearing "no, don't do that! why did you do that? how do I get it back to what it was" then I do actually writing.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.