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Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...
Although Microsoft describes Edit as a “command-line text editor,” it technically employs a Text User Interface (TUI). This means that it’s a full-screen, interactive terminal app, so you can use it ...
There are some old DOS applications that you just can't afford to lose (or games you still like), and Windows 10 lets you keep them. Here's how.
MS-DOS Editor v 2.0 first appeared with Windows 95 and appears in Windows 7/8/10 too. As it is a DOS program, it is not included in any 64-bit version of Windows.
While DOS (and Windows) were not short of third-party editors, the original Microsoft Editor holds a special place in the hearts of users of a certain age.
Microsoft is reviving the classic MS-DOS Edit utility with a new open-source text editor built for Windows 11. Microsoft developers designed it to provide a native command-line ...
The making of Bill Gates The history of MS DOS is part legend, part myth, but either way, it is responsible for Bill Gate's fortune, as well as that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Edit: An unintended bonus of the transition via Win32s/c was that a lot of "Win32" apps were just Win16 apps reworked to run with the transition macros so it could compile for Win16 or Win32.