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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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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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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 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

Tech & coding reminder:

Do not move fast and break things.

Too much is broken already.

Move purposefully and fix things.

SpeedStor detected the controller but told me absolutely nothing about it. The other debug commands didn't work. But this one did:

A>debug
-g=c800:6
1701-B

"G=C800:6" printed the POST error code. Matches Scientific Micro Systems, OMTI, & Adaptec?

I still don't have any idea what basic kind of HDD to pair this mystery controller up with. & folks, any help is appreciated.

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RT @dyke_du_jour@twitter.com

Thank you @selectric401@twitter.com for commissioning me for a CGA portrait, this one was super fun to do!

working past that mental block and working on some dither patterns oh yeah 💪😤

🐦🔗: twitter.com/dyke_du_jour/statu

I still want someone to make USB floppy drives that can read & write MF2DD floppies reliably AND USB floppy drives that can read & write DSDD & DSHD floppies in all the most common formats.

I still want someone to make new 3-1/2 (90mm) AND 5-1/4 (135mm) floppies, too!

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Windows 10 is an incompatible clone of VMS that thinks it's an incompatible clone of CP/M.

Context: Surprise that Windows 10 reads & writes MF2HD floppy disks with a (relatively) cheap USB floppy drive.

What I tried so far:
> debug
-> G=C800:5
-> G=C800:800
-> G=C800:CCC
-> G=C800:5
-> G=C800:6

What I haven't tried yet:
> SpeedStor minuszerodegrees.net/software/
> Other debug commands jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb

There's no HDD attached. I have to figure out what the controller is & supports before sourcing a disk.

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Anyone who knows rare add-ons for , can you point me to the manual for this? It's a Mountain Computer part number 05-04031-02 that came in a HDD-less IBM 5160 (PC-XT) I rescued. I can't tell if it's an MFM, RLL, or ESDI controller or what the jumpers do.

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