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wazoox on Nov 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversar...

Sure, back then it was the only editor available on an MS-DOS installation (was it 3.3 or 4.01?) to the poor soul needing to tweak his CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

yuhong on Nov 3, 2011 [–]

EDLIN was the only text editor for all MS-DOS/PC-DOS versions prior to 5.0, when they were able to piggyback off QBASIC to create EDIT.

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