From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers
On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:15:33 +0200
"Carlos E.R." <
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2025-08-07 21:56, John Ames wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 21:38:42 +0200
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
And yes, definitely this. MS-DOS EDIT is "only" ~192 KB, and that's
because it's really QBASIC with the BASIC parts stowed in the
cupboard. A dedicated text editor in the DOS days was generally far
less (I've got a couple bare-bones ones that fit in 4-8 KB,
somewhere.) Compare
ted.com was less than 3 KiB :-)
Glad I read ahead. 2.5k
EZedit is 4k.
At lest the original version, they improved it on a later version and
got somewhat bigger. It was published as assembler example in PC
TedPlus
Magazine, I think it was. I typed it all by hand, no way I could
connect by modem across the pond to download it!
Ah yeah, that was one of 'em. Snappy enough even on an XT, as I recall,
but it's been a hot minute since I used it.
Very snappy :-)
Even when loading from floppy. Most of my "system" disks had it.
Yeah, long memories. I'm getting old.
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:-)
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Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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