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		drivers99 on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ed is the standard text editor (2014) EDLIN in MS-DOS was very similar to ed. (Here's a short third-party manual that someone wrote. http://www.sqrt-pi.org/boots/Done-That/Edlin-manual/p11.html )

dboreham on July 8, 2022 [–]

Early MS was heavily dec-10 based, wasn't it? so it's possible its lineage comes through TECO, via CP/M ED.

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