Re: New WiFi adapter

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.