said E. Liddell via tde-users:
| Preferences in writing software are pretty idiosyncratic. I have a very | old version of Windows set up in a VM so that I can run a very old | version of Word for the purpose. Everything else I've tried has added | one or more "features" that get in the way of my just turning out | minimally-formatted text.
See you and raise you fifty -- in one of the DOS emulators I have Word for DOS 5.5 running happily. Microsoft is giving it away and it one of three DOS word processors I sometimes use, the other two being Xywrite and the last version of Textra. It works well and is more convenient for writing in that it is not a graphical word processor (which is to word processing what ANSI art was to graphics) but a wordical word processor.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55...
You can download it here if you want. Fun to play with, anyway, though I find it useful for work. IMPORTANT: If you use it, save your work in .rtf, because nothing reads Word for DOS files anymore, but .rtf still works anywhere.