Tech

30 years later, edit is back Back in 1991, Microsoft released MS-DOS 5.0 - one of the most important releases of that OS ever, and the first one to receive a retail release. Driven by the growing OS competition on the PC platform at that time - such as DR-DOS - MS-DOS 5.0 was packed with tons of new features, such as improved memory and disk management, and - the subject of this topic - new MS-DOS Editor, also known as edit. It was the first full-screen editor shipped with MS-DOS, as previous versions only had a rudimentary edlin line editor. Edit was originally the editing component of the QBasic IDE/interpreter. However, QBasic and most other DOS tools were discontinued with the release of Windows 95 - edit remained, but was decoupled from QBasic and updated with some new features. It remained like that, unchanged, all the way until Windows 10 when it was finally removed - although in the last few releases of Windows, it was only available on the 32-bit versions due to compatibility issues. ...

How and why I’ve been building simple websites manually since the Geocities era. As a matter of fact, this URL used to host one before this blog was made, in all of its’ 90s glory. I also had some blogs before this one, which were not tech related, and which used standard dynamic platforms such as Wordpress or Blogger - also built a few of those for some clients back in the day. ...