alt Hacker NewsSo, like edit.com and QBasic. What is old is new again.
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eliasson • today at 1:45 PM
Wait. What? Was that the case? Young me never realised that! =)
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So, like edit.com and QBasic. What is old is new again.
Wait. What? Was that the case? Young me never realised that! =)
Except that was done to save disk space (according to https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/063/Q63777/, "When EDIT.COM is executed in MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later, it invokes QBASIC.EXE with the /EDITOR switch", whereas this installs a whole new copy of the Edge browser (850 MB) on a system where in 90+% of cases it's already installed...