Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:42:18 -0800

One of my first jobs (in the early 80's) involved acquiring data from The Army Authorization Documentation System (TAADS) on 9-track tapes, using an 80286-based Xenix system to put these onto a hard drive on a server system from which analysts could load the files to their PCs.  Wordstar was used because it was the only program we had that could take advantage of "virtual memory.  Yes, those were the DOS days.  I believe, at the time, any text file that exceeded 32kbytes was virtually uneditable in anything else.
 
I dunno why I mention it; it has nothing to do with IDEs.  I just haven't heard mention of "Wordstar" in years.
 
Charles

"Anthony R. Nemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I remember using Wordstar to do Pascal programming. =) This would be in the very early 1980's

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>the dreaded editor/IDE controversy! This one's been dormant ever since
>I've been a subscriber; good to see it coming back to life.
>
>Buwah-ha-ha-haaaa! Let the flayings begin!
>
>P.S. I use a combination of antiques: edit (the old DOS editor) and Kedit,
>with an occasional resorting to Vim.
>
>Strong the call of the Dark Side is.
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