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May 14, 2014 11:17 pm GMT
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George R.R. Martin Writes 'Game of Thrones' on a '70s Word Processor
Finally, a possible answer to why it's taken Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin upwards of 20 years to pen the series: He's using technology older than Westeros
Martin appeared on Conan Tuesday night and admitted he uses a "DOS machine" running WordStar 4.0 to write the wildly poplar books. This would basically be like David Benioff and D.B. Weiss admitting they filmed the HBO show only for VHS
For those who can't recall the age of WordStar, it was a processing system released in the '70s (yes, computers existed back then) from MicroPro. It reached peak popularity in the '80s for its simple, text-only design Read more...
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