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CP/M - because pip just makes more sense than copy.
by rgmerk 2mo ago
CP/M - because pip just makes more sense than copy.
- Gracana 2mo agoIt also has an “ed” that will make you miss UNIX’s “ed”. I’ve used it to write programs and it is not fun!
- tengwar2 1mo agoWhen I started using it, standard advice was to use Wordstar in text mode.
- rgmerk 2mo agoI was a kid at the time, so I only got as far as writing and modifying a few programs in MBASIC. Anyone that got anything nontrivial to work on those systems deserves much respect.
- Zardoz84 2mo agoedilin was in the same page
- pjmlp 1mo agoMy computer skills typographic school exam was done with edlin, on MS-DOS 3.3 Never used it ever again.
- kees99 2mo agoWasn't that abbreviation from "pipe"? As in - this is a pipe that you can use to connect terminal to a file, file to a printer... and yes, file to a file (that's cp/copy).
- haddonist 2mo agoNo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program
- lproven 1mo ago> pip just makes more sense than copy. PIP was a stock tool on DEC OS-8 and other OSes of which CP/M was basically a cheapo cut-down Intel version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program