Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: New WiFi adapter Date: 5 Jun 2025 05:50:53 GMT Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <7lcirjdmt6b37pcs0821d0l1jmoclrrhva@4ax.com> <9ludnRRB-JRx6ST6nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <101m75b$3s8f3$1@dont-email.me> <3cudnTmwy_61S6L1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <101q7rs$10u8n$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tcA1SjztdTrNIAm53/VZlQ+JRKbNgw+XgexgQT1NFWaFsCiEY1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oVCtTe71mVjZ/+ZyKHJ7jqUy+5Y= sha256:ViYsduj5OjUVkx1NcXxidOBa+1nzKmVH2EYkaDmqO8U= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:691734 comp.os.linux.misc:68369 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.