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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@cyberspice MS-DOS edlin was inherited from QDOS edlin, which was a clone of CP/M ed, not a clone of Unix ed. CP/M ed was heavily inspired by Unix ed, yes, but CP/M ed had a different user interface making for a very different user experience.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@balglaas The last time I wanted edlin was in 1999, when my only PC was a Windows laptop. When I upgraded to XP in '04, I became frustrated because edlin only works in qwerty, even when Windows CMD uses another keyboard layout.

In the Unix & Linux worlds, I've made ed my main editor, with vi and nano as fallbacks. It's the only editor I use where I don't have to worry about incompatible terminals or terminal oddities, & where the only feature I might miss is syntax highlighting.

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dj chicken trouble

dj security laugh

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I've just been corrected by dosnostalgic on birdsite: DOS 6 and Windows 9x didn't have EDLIN, either. Oops.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@KitRedgrave The robot writers and human editor are both being exploited by a not-open AI corporation founded by the same human capitalist teaching robot cars to kill their occupants & pedestrians.

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selfcare.tech

Be kind to yourself.

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Naomi

Found in the wild

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@adorfer

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Coreyartus

FYI, artists on Instagram: They're allowing (and encouraging) anyone to use your images and footage for their own Reels and Stories without your permission. And it's automatic. You have to opt out of it if you don't want to give permission.

So, they're pretty much saying "Use anything you find here without asking and don't give any credit--that's okay!"

<groan>

#instagram #privacy

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

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.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

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.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

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.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The cutest luggable PC I've seen in a very long time: the Osborne Vixen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_

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yuri bot

danbooru.donmai.us/posts/31652
source: twitter.com/kolshicako/status/

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Teryl's Tales of Whim~

Every evening the cat came, and every evening the poor artist would sketch or paint feverishly in the dimming light.

The cat would be still as a statue, until the artist was done - image completed or not. The incomplete images were always somehow completed by dawn.

The artist eventually sold the collection, then purchased a rare dried fish, feeding it to the cat and breaking the curse.

She cried, relieved to have her wife back.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Caturday #Fantasy

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The genius engineering of the 3.5 inch floppy disk 💾:
youtu.be/tJCMzdzh4Tw

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

does this count as

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@mavica_again Yes. 💜

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apt

forgot to post this thing from earlier

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I don't just have *a* 286, I have *the* 286.

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