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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: New WiFi adapter |
| Date | 2025-06-05 05:50 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <macphtF92f9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (10 earlier) <3cudnTmwy_61S6L1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <mablk3F2eclU8@mid.individual.net> <101q7rs$10u8n$3@dont-email.me> <mabo6lF2eclU11@mid.individual.net> <lZ-cnSnsCsdZUt31nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 18:58:42 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 6/4/25 4:21 PM, rbowman wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:47:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> 04/06/2025 20:37, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 01:14:15 -0400, c186282 wrote: >>>> >>>>> Remember all the great IBM-PC/BIOS routines ? >>>>> Made it EASY to write full-screen editors. You had to have the >>>>> "Technical Reference Manual" to know all that stuff, however I >>>>> did have that .... >>>> >>>> And everyone felt compelled to write an editor... >>> >>> Fuck that. Wordstar had been available on CP/M for ages, and was >>> better than vi. >>> So when it turned up on DOS everyone grabbed a pirate copy. 'joe' >>> emulates it these days for Linux >>> >>> >> Definitely. WordStar was bundled on the Osborne 1 CP/M I bought in '81 >> and hat is what I used. When I moved to DOS I used Brief which was >> designed to be a programming editor. >> >> The 'write an editor' think could be traced to the programming books of >> the day. They tended to use string handling in their examples and it >> followed 'Oh, I can write an editor'. >> >> I wrote cross-assemblers when they weren't available or expensive but I >> was happy with available editors. I did not use vi. Vim (vi improved) >> is a hell of an improvement but that was more than 10 years in the >> future. >> >> vi in most Linux distros is a symlink to Vim so many who claim to use >> vi aren't using the original Bill Joy version. > > Umm ... are we talking WordSTAR or WordPERFECT here ? WordStar. I've never used WordPerfect.
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