George RR Martin still writes his books with the DOS program WordStar. Given the pace he releases books at, this might more be out of preference than desire to focus though...
I still occasionally use Freedos and a wordstar compatible editor I wrote in 1991, I dont even go to the DOS prompt I just boot strait in to it. The biggest problem is still getting my work off this machine to a networked one so I can back it up or publish it, used to use a floppy when those were an item but now using a serial file transfer program.. all pretty clunky.
I'm pretty sure you can have an ad-hoc setup with a serial to network adapter. It might require more custom software on both ends, but if you control both ends anyway, it might give you a smoother experience anyway.
boznz|4 years ago
sidpatil|4 years ago
[1] https://www.plrelectronics.com/floppy-to-usb/
selfhoster11|4 years ago