LawrenceWoodman

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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   Glad you like it. You're right it would work on the C64 as well, although it isn't really as useful due to the C64 having so much more memory.
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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   It's mainly that I just prefer programming in assembler on the 8080/8085 - it's easier to fit the instruction set neatly in my head. The 8085 is also much easier to emulate and I like the ease of interfacing it with hardwar
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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   Turbo Pascal is great and I love the fact that it uses the Wordstar key combinations. I wish that there was a version for 8080 but I understand why they went with the Z80. Borland went on to create Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M which was v
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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   I think it's generally cleaner, more elegant and the combining of commands on a line is easier. I love that you can create macros such as: MNCPM^Z0TT6Z-3DICP/M^Z This will go through a file bigger than memory, display each
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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   It's funny that you should say that because VI/VIM, another modal editor, is my editor of choice on Linux, with JSTAR second. However, lately I've been thinking of writing a modal editor for Linux based on CP/M's ED
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   by LawrenceWoodman 6y ago

   Honestly, I really do love it. I've used plenty of other editors on CP/M and now that I've got used to ED I just don't find them as quick or often as powerful as ED. That doesn't mean that they don't have ext