The very first image in the article is not edit.com, it is the Windows 95 edit.exe which replaced it. The actual "edit.com" is a tiny stub that launches QBasic

The very first image in the article is not edit.com, it is the Windows 95 edit.exe which replaced it. The actual "edit.com" is a tiny stub that launches QBasic in edit mode, equivalent to "qbasic /edit".