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For a minute I thought it was PC DOS 1.1 rewritten in the Scratch language, and I was ready to be impressed. Still a good article. I actually used DOS 1.1, when it came out. I'm old.

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Ah, but did you have to program it? Have you known the horror of the FCB? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Control_Block

I think my fingers still know edlin.

In high school when we got introduced to text processing, it was on MS-DOS 3.3, using edlin, and those wonderful 8" dual sided floppies.

I share the same sentiment.

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