Trivia: Windows 11 is the first version of any Microsoft operating system for IBM PCs, IBM compatibles, PC compatibles, or PCs shipping without the command line editor EDLIN in any edition.
Why? Because there's no 32-bit x86 edition of Windows 11.
Every version of MS-DOS came with EDLIN.
Every 16-bit version of Windows let you run EDLIN via the underlying MS-DOS.
Every 32-bit version of Windows from the first RTM of Windows 95 right through to the current version of Windows 10 came with EDLIN.
It's only 64-bit versions of (x86) Windows that don't come with EDLIN installed.
Also, in Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, you need to install NTVDM separately in order to run EDLIN. Typing the command for the first time brings up a Windows Troubleshooter Wizard to do just that for you.
I've just been corrected by dosnostalgic on birdsite: DOS 6 and Windows 9x didn't have EDLIN, either. Oops.
I also forgot FreeDOS wrote their own EDLIN port: https://github.com/FDOS/edlin
And on SourceForge, which is newer?? FreeDOS edlin: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin/
