On 03/07/2019 21:01, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
I remember ed. I don't think that I have used it for about 30 years and I can't remember what OS that was on. I did use ed, but also edlin on DOS boxes.
I remember reading the CP/M ed manual in horror in the early 1980's (on a home-built Nascom II which I still have), wondering why they'd still provide anything so primitive! But then used edlin for a couple of years on early PC's developing in assembler and C. Incidentally, a pair of floppy disk drives with PSU, interface card and CP/M cost around £800 in 1983 - £2288 today according to https://www.inflationtool.com/british-pound Tim -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
