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bluedinotoday at 1:53 PM1 replyview on HN

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...


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jtarriotoday at 2:03 PM

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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