8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
12:33 p.m.
On 2016-07-08 4:28 PM, John Willis wrote:
EPM was another derivative of the DOS editor PE. PE was
one of several
very nice DOS programs written by IBMers in their spare time, many of
these where shared internally and PE was one of them that later became
an official product.
Paul.
There are or were lots of odd editors for the PC. IBM E was one --
apparently it's quite like some mainframe tool. Came with PC-DOS and
was... strange.
I liked EPM under OS/2, and had to get acquainted with TEDIT for disaster
recovery of same. I believe "E" under OS/2 was just a stripped-down GUI
editor akin to MS Notepad.