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On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:09:47 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    WordStar and close variants were VERY popular back in the day. Kind
>    of everyone's "first word processor".
>    Everyone used it alongside Lotus-123.

It was bundled on the Osborne 1 CP/M machine. I got a lot of miles out of 
it as a programming editor in the text mode. When I finally moved to the 
DOS world I bought Brief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)

'ed' wasn't much fun. I think I way have had a freeware clone of vi that 
was no Joy either. I guessing 95% of the people who say 'I use vi' never 
have. Most Linux distros bring up Vim if you type 'vi'. One exception is 
Arch. 'vi' is a hard link to ex which comes up in the visual mode for that 
old timey flavor.