What was the single byte change to port WordStar from CP/M to DOS?
- by amarillion
I was re-reading Joel's Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg problems and came across this fun quote:
In fact, WordStar was ported to DOS
by changing one single byte in the
code. (Real Programmers can tell you
what that byte was, I've long since
forgotten).
I couldn't find any other references to this with a quick Google search. Is this true or just a figure of speech? In the interest of my quest to become a "Real Programmer", what was the single byte change?