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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: New WiFi adapter
Date: 5 Jun 2025 05:59:59 GMT
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 18:02:19 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> On 6/4/25 3:37 PM, 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...
> 
>    GOOD !
> 
>    There WERE a lot of them early in PC-dom ... some were simple, some
>    ambitious, some evolved into better things.

I suppose it was better than reading the Dragon book and deciding to write 
a compiler.