"Writerdeck' or simple word processor? They were first sold in the 1960s or 70s. Why? Buy, not build I'm thinking.

The author already had the hardware, better to not buy than to buy.

You're not gettin' the point. There's nothing here if you think about it for 10 seconds. Any ancient anything, could run vi, or vim, or Emacs, or friggin' wordstar, natively or via emulation or WHATEVER. There's nothing here.

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McGlockenshire 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You seem to be missing the entire point of the exercise and perhaps you should go back and read the article again to understand what you're missing.

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hank808 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Nopes. I'm strongly suggesting that we already had a frigging word for these things, that's also still valid AF today, and it's "word processor." Not f'n writerdeck or whatever. Dumb.

	▲	tonypapousek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> valid AF Nope. We already had a frigging phrase for that, and it’s “completely valid”, not “valid AF” or “cromulent” or whatever. Dumb.