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On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 21:38:42 +0200
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

> > And yes, definitely this. MS-DOS EDIT is "only" ~192 KB, and that's
> > because it's really QBASIC with the BASIC parts stowed in the
> > cupboard. A dedicated text editor in the DOS days was generally far
> > less (I've got a couple bare-bones ones that fit in 4-8 KB,
> > somewhere.) Compare  
> 
> ted.com was less than 3 KiB :-)
> 
> At lest the original version, they improved it on a later version and 
> got somewhat bigger. It was published as assembler example in PC 
> Magazine, I think it was. I typed it all by hand, no way I could
> connect by modem across the pond to download it!

Ah yeah, that was one of 'em. Snappy enough even on an XT, as I recall,
but it's been a hot minute since I used it.