At 12:47 Uhr +0100 01.12.1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>Hauke Fath wrote:
>>
>> But that's how it is with editors. Anyone using vi, pico, ed, WORDSTAR 3,
>> EDLIN out there?
>>
>
>does that mean there is somewhere a precompiled pkg of WORDSTAR 3 I could use
>on a (my) NetBSD box?

Hmmmpfff....

No. I seriously doubt that MicroPro ever shipped their source code, and
even then, you'd need a Z80-to-{m68k,C,Pascal,Java,...} converter. There
are Z80 emulators available that can run CP/M 2.2 clones, but, written in
C, they are dog slow on m68k machines. The Z80 emulator that was available
for the Atari ST (hand-coded in m68k assembler by a programmer from Munich)
was faster, but its sources were never made available, either.

No, I simply listed a load of (more or less) exotic editors.  ;)

>If so, wow. I love it - since my first Apple II with
>C/PM card (82 or so): it was the only wp offering foot- and endnotes at those
>times :-))

I started on little-endian machines with a ZX81.

	hauke



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