[kristopolous]

I swear I remember using this. I even remember the syntax. I was able to compile it and just start writing in it. I have no idea how I know this syntax.

Did early linux have this? Maybe netbsd?

I actually found it. It was on simtel: https://archive.org/details/Simtel20_Sept92

I must have gotten it from there. I would routinely get any thing Walnut Creek would make.

I also realized a couple years ago I could navigate EDLIN without help and knew how to use masm. Somehow I had forgotten what I know but my fingers did not.

[cbdevidal]

Fun story: As a kid with only a DOS 3.3 box and no BBS to download another and not much money to buy one, no magazine subscription etc., I accidentally erased our word processor software. I literally only had EDLIN for writing anything. So, that’s what I used. Got so good I was able to write multi-page book reports with it.

[mcv]

I encountered it on an open day on the university. The only thing I still remember is that functions were called HowTo, because they described how to do something.

[teruakohatu]

Can you tell me about "Simtel"? I have never used a BBS but from looking at that ISO it was a collection of software downloaded from BBS' ?

[msla]

FTP server, not BBS. You had to be on the Internet to access it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel

It was called SIMTEL20 for a while because it was hosted on a PDP-10 mainframe running the TOPS-20 operating system, but apparently it was hosted on a PDP-10 running ITS first:

> The archive was hosted initially on the MIT-MC PDP-10 running the Incompatible Timesharing System,[1] then TOPS-20, then FreeBSD servers

[teruakohatu]

That is an interesting piece of internet history, thank you for sharing.