Re: New WiFi adapter

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 06/06/2025 22:08, Andreas Eder wrote:

On Fr 06 Jun 2025 at 18:48, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
 

Le 04-06-2025, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> a écrit :

On 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...

>
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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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.

 
joe can emulate Wordstar.
 

 
That's what I said.
 
You may say that Wordstar doesn't have all the regex extensions that VI
had, but remember, when your output device is a teleprinter you really
NEED those.
 
Wordstar assumes an 80x25 character screen.

Depends upon which version is your reference point.  WordStar 7 for DOS
(the last DOS version, by the way) will use larger than 80x25 character
screens.  I used it (WS7) for a good many years running (IIRC) in 80x50
character mode, first under DesqView on top of DOS plus QEMM386 then
later in Dosemu on Linux.

I don't recall ever testing it with more than 80 columns, but as it
worked just fine with 50 lines I presume it would have worked with more
than 80 columns.