Remember this is the Netherlands, not the US. Happily, "emergencies" are not a regular occurrence.
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somehow this thread has become focused on piano / music lessons, from my reading of Will's post, his experience w.r.t. movie roles and his mother's part in that went way beyond "go practice your piano / violin / oboe" before you hang out with your friends" being discussed here
WordStar had no such limit, think he's referring to Movie Master
I met Tim Patterson back in late '81 or early '82 I was working for Micropro (WordStar) at the time in San Rafael and they flew me up to Seattle. I guess we discussed porting WordStar to SCP-DOS but it's so long ago!
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The point was that those commands used muscle-memory and were conceived so that the majority of editing tasks could be executed with leaving the "home" position
Wow, amazing - I worked for Micropro back in the early 80s - ask him about the Barnaby monitor throwing incident sometime...
What a time to be alive! Me, I drink when I'm thirsty.
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