[TUHS] Screen editors

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Jan 30 08:24:13 AEST 2020


On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Toby Thain wrote:

> Speaking of WordStar, on CP/M there was also WordMaster, lighter weight, 
> better as a programmer's editor. Not sure who wrote it (but istr it came 
> from the WordStar people?) Adding here for completeness...

I used WordStar a lot on my old Microbee (an Aussie CP/M box) but I never 
heard of WordMaster...

Getting a full ANSI C compiler for CP/M was great; I could use some Unix 
tools on it :-)  Can't remember if it was BDS or Hi-Tech; one was ANSI 
(function prototypes and the works) whereas the other wouldn't even 
recognise things like "int i = 1;".

I even found a UUCP for it too, but it was overlaid to hell and back; at 
least it worked...

-- Dave


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