11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:51 p.m.
On 11 Jun 2009 at 11:19, Warren Wolfe wrote:
All true, but EDLIN was way dumb. Reliable, but dumb.
When I went to
client sites, I always took a few diskettes -- and would load some
public domain utilities and some batch files to the client machines.
What's remarkable is that the16 bit MS-DOS editor, EDLIN, was far
dumber than the 8-bit CP/M editor ED. You could do some pretty nifty
stuff with the latter.
--Chuck