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Re: BofA+Netscape

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NODE 6f8046c2Re: BofA+Netscape Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@netcom.com>Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:48:47 PST

> Is that the same Microsoft that brought us Edlin???

Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

NODE cfc9293aRe: BofA+Netscape "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:57:43 PST

Johnathan Corgan says:
> > Is that the same Microsoft that brought us Edlin???
> 
> Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

No.

.pm

NODE c7f4a402Re: BofA+Netscape m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)Tue, 13 Dec 94 13:12:34 PST

Johnathan Corgan writes:
 > > Is that the same Microsoft that brought us Edlin???
 > 
 > Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

No.  Or at least, if it was, the edlin implementor had some serious
misunderstandings.

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NODE 9979bfe7Re: BofA+Netscape Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>Wed, 14 Dec 94 07:48:26 PST

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> Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

Nope.  It's very similar to the CP/M `ed'. (I hesitate to say
"identical" since I haven't touched a CP/M system since 1984..), but
the first time I used edlin a couple years ago to edit an autoexec.bat
file, I had CP/M flashbacks...

Edlin is very different from the Unix `ed' and *its* ancestors (which
are a line of several line-oriented editors which started life on
CTSS, grew up on Multics, and were cut back down to size on Unix, only
to sprout up again into ex and vi..)

				 - Bill

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