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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:47:08 +0100
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On 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


I think for office work word perfect was probably the best editor ever 
designed. Just smart enough and not too smart

Its still available for linux somewhere


-- 
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of 
intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on 
intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is 
futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, 
we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every 
criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a 
power-directed system of thought.”
Sir Roger Scruton