[GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

[James Knott]

On 03/10/2019 12:00 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:10 AM James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org
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>     On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>     > Surely next will be MS Office!
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>     I'm still waiting on EDLIN.  ;-)
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> Oh indeed!!!
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> It would be interesting to compare code and functionality to ed...
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> Has anyone else noticed that there is now a book on mastering ed, by
> Michael Lucas?  I sorta want a copy of that ;-)
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I've only come across one editor that was worse than EDLIN.  It was the
line editor on Pr1me computers.  We had a few of those systems at work. 
As I recall, you could only jump to the top or bottom of the file or use
relative jumps.  You couldn't jump directly to a specific line. =-O