Re: New WiFi adapter

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:47:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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 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
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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.
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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'.
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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.

I got by quite well with old-style vi for quite awhile.

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.

Vim is nice, but sometimes it runs counter to vi, such as allowing
keystrokes that bypass the move/insert mode paradigm or the line-orientation of
vi..

Not that it bothers me much.

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