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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 4 Mar 2025 09:28:17 GMT
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 02:24:26 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Almost the FIRST thing I did with the new IBM-PC/MSDOS PC was to
>    write a full-screen editor kinda like 'nano'
>    (in ASM) so I'd never have to use EDLIN or anything like it. DESPISE
>    line editors - REMOVE them from all my Linux distros so they won't
>    accidentally come up.

About the first thing I did with MSDOS was buy Brief.

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

I was upset when Borland bought it and never did anything with it. 

I'd had vi on CP/M but used the Wordstar that was bundled with the 
system.  Finally Vim came along. 'Improved' is an understatement compared 
to vanilla vi.