| ▲ | bluedino 8 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Imagine when edit.com came out and QBASIC used it for the editor. You lost two more lines of valuable code space! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor#/media/File%3AMS... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jtarrio 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
You know, this is funny because QBasic did not use EDIT.COM. Instead, QBasic was the editor and EDIT.COM was a simple program that called "QBASIC /EDIT" :-) | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | lysace 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I recently went back to my 1993 Turbo Pascal code (mostly 2D VGA and Sound Blaster game engine experiments) on period correct hardware. I was surprised by how claustrophobic it felt to only see 21 lines of code in e.g. Turbo Pascal 7.0. Still didn’t like the squashed 80x43 mode. https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c38a28c3-84c3-ba28-1011-c3... Then I remembered how larger displays and xterm felt like such a liberation a few years later. | |||||||||||||||||
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