Re: New WiFi adapter

On 6/4/25 4:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-04 22:21, rbowman wrote:
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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'.

 Borland Pascal (and Borland C I suppose) at some point came with a set of libraries that allowed to create menu based text applications, and one of the included objects was an editor, for at least 65K of text.
 I remember another set of libraries, that came with a thick book, that included the libraries to create an editor. I don't remember the name.

   No Borland stuff yet when we got our PCs ... and
   we couldn't afford anything but the MS/IBM FORTRAN
   compiler for the stats people. So, I opened the
   Tek Ref manual and wrote my EdLin-killer in MASM.
   It was fun too :-)
   No real internet back in '82 ... so you couldn't
   download other people's solutions. The few BBS
   systems were mostly Commodore/Atari stuff.