WordPerfect for DOS Updated
Necessary pointer: 
George R R Martin still writes on WordStar 4.0 on DOS. 
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502</a>
Conan clip this refers to: <a href="https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/X5REM-3nWHg</a><p>As I need to write for work I recently got into this topic - this blog post makes some interesting points about how distraction free writing used to be the norm: <a href="https://vascsurg.me/2019/11/17/distraction-free-writing-used-to-be-the-norm-with-technology/" rel="nofollow">https://vascsurg.me/2019/11/17/distraction-free-writing-used...</a><p>The AlphaSmart Neo devices became tremendously popular among writers recently, apparently many of them can’t stand modern software anymore because it has become too visually distracting for them: <a href="https://orcutt.net/weblog/2018/03/17/my-prodigiously-convoluted-yet-miraculously-productive-low-tech-writing-process-part-2-with-a-few-modest-writing-secrets/" rel="nofollow">https://orcutt.net/weblog/2018/03/17/my-prodigiously-convolu...</a><p>Distractions certainly are too blame here, but my pet theory is that the added visual input blocks top down imagery in the visual system.