Edlin
Sign in to saveEdlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continued to be included in the 32-bit versions of Microsoft operating systems up to Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Edlin
- Software.author
- Tim Paterson
- Software.developer
- Microsoft, IBM, Gregory Pietsch
- Software.programming language
- MS-DOS: x86 assembly language
- Software.operating system
- 86-DOS, IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows
- Software.replaced_by
- MS-DOS Editor
- Software.genre
- Line editor
- Software.license
- MS-DOS: MITFreeDOS, ReactOS: GPL86-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, Windows: Proprietary commercial software
- Software.website
- Edlin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- inception
- 1980-00-00
Sources (1)
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8 sectionsContents
- History
- Usage
- Scripts
- FreeDOS Edlin
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continued to be included in the 32-bit versions of Microsoft operating systems up to Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10.
==History== thumb|300px|EDLIN.COM (among several other commands) in IBM PC DOS 1.0 thumb|300px|Using EDLIN for typing Japanese with the ATOK 8 input method editor, running on [[MS-DOS 3.3C for the PC-9800 series]] Edlin was created by Tim Paterson in two weeks in 1980, for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS (QDOS) based on the CP/M context editor ED, itself distantly inspired by the DEC PDP-10 TOPS-10 EDIT text editor.