Re: New WiFi adapter

On 6/4/25 4:21 PM, rbowman wrote:

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:
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     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 ....

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And everyone felt compelled to write an editor...

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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.
 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.

   Umm ... are we talking WordSTAR or WordPERFECT here ?
   I've used both - indeed even WS on a Kaypro CP/M box -
   but WordPerfect was much better. The old boss still
   used it for everything until he retired a few years
   ago. Fortunately LibreOffice could at least READ WP
   files (not sure if ever became able to write them).