Re: New WiFi adapter

On 06 Jun 2025 18:48:19 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

I don't know about the difference between wordstar and vi ages ago. I
have always used vim. Last time I checked joe is nowhere close to vim.

WordStar was a word processor but with care it could be used as a
programming editor. Joy's vi made no claims to word processing.

'Word processing' has an interesting history.

https://www.wang1200.org/history.html

Xerox had a word processor but Wang took the idea and ran. Later systems
were more general purpose but at the time a word processor was sort of
like a typewriter and did nothing else.

An Wang was among he wealthiest people in the US and Wang Labs employed a
lot of people in the Boston area. Wang had a feud with IBM that may have
led to some bad choices. He wanted to retire and handed the business to
his son. An was brilliant, the son not so much, and was fired but the end
was near. A couple of years later the company filed Chapter 11.

When Dukakis ran for president on the strength of the 'Massachusetts
Miracle' Wang Labs was a big part of it. Of course Dukakis had nothing to
do with it and the miracle was fading fast anyway.

I lived in southern New Hampshire at the time (1988) and could read the
writing on the wall and headed west, a decision I never regretted.