> i remember a time when MS Word was run within DOS

The penultimate DOS version of MS Word is freeware. MS released Word 5.5 as freeware as a Y2K fix for all previous versions.

It's quite usable. I've written articles using it.

You can run it under Linux or macOS easily using DOSemu, on 64-bit Windows with VDOS+.

I wrote about how, with a pic of it working:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/friday_foss_fest_runn...

Sadly, the last ever version, 6.0, is much better, with more keystrokes in common with Word 6 for Windows and Mac, and that's not freeware.

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nunobrito 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

edit.com was a fantastic text editor. So easy, so intuitive. Never understood why nano wasn't able to compete. Anyways, I'm nowadays a user of "micro" on linux for text editing.

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lproven 4 days ago | parent [-]

I totally agree.

I use Tilde myself, which is very close.

https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde

I have written about it:

"Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976"

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/tilde_text_editor/

Nobody got the gag in the title. 1976 was when Vi first appeared.

	▲	nunobrito 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, thanks. I've installed and tried out. The opening menu explained the key settings and it was just Edit from MSDOS. Very good, they even improved to exit the editor using ^Q. I really don't know why so many people are against having a bar with menus and using the arrows to navigate. It is intuitive and easy, that editor really hit the spot. Thank you for the tip.

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mxuribe 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh wow, that's so cool! And dig that blue background! Thanks for sharing!