“A Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin appeared on “Conan” on Tuesday and revealed his secret weapon: DOS word processing program Word Star 4.0.
The 65-year-old author, whose work is the basis for HBO’s hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” said he chooses to use the ancient Disk Operating System program because more modern word processing programs are annoying.
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“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,” Martin said in the interview (above). “I don’t want a capital. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital. I know how to work this ship. Stop fixing it.”
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Don’t even get him started on spell check.