2 Feb
2015
2 Feb
'15
1:45 p.m.
On 2/2/2015 3:08 PM, geneb wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
It was. And even I could afford it while in college - $99.95 from Mark
Williams Company. It was a revelation compared to DOS. Actual
multitasking on my '286. Actual tools like lex and yacc just like the
big systems at school (HP mumble-thousands and Sun 2s). I wasn't in the
Emacs camp, so the first thing I did was find a vi clone (elvis) to
compile and use. Lovely system it was.
- David
I could never afford it & figured I
wouldn't understand it if I did.
But it sounded really cool.
Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
The manual was VERY good as I recall.