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Microsoft's relaunch of EDIT for Linux implies that they're relaunching QBASIC for Linux

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Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux

It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.
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the reason? it turns out EDIT.COM just launches QBASIC.EXE in a special text editor mode, using the same GUI but without the BASIC interpreter stuff.
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Lol, some versions of edit.com actually didn't use QBasic though.

Well, maybe they included whatever it pulled from QB built in. I don't think I ever looked at the file sizes to compare or anything. (I'll bet it could use a whole lot less.)

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That was true in the MS-DOS 5.0 and 6.x version of EDIT, but beginning with Windows 95 (MS-DOS 7.0), EDIT became its own separate, standalone program.
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@vwestlife has anyone tried to disassemble it to see if the code is copied over from QBASIC?
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Григорий Клюшников
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The way Microsoft is open-sourcing their old products implies that they might eventually open-source Windows 3.1 or even 95 in the future. I'm kinda looking forward to that.
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Aw man, this is just a new thing written in rust. It probably has nothing in common with edit.com. I was ready to try out edit.com for Linux, for a laff. But this new thing will do nothing for my nostalgia.
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