The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost

Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by pjmlp on Saturday October 18, 2025 @01:25PM (#45628933)

Agreed, we used TUIs because we couldn't afford anything better on MS-DOS, CP/M, 8 bit home computers.

People on better systems like the Amiga and Atari were already past that.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by anthk on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:33PM (#45630155)

Vim was born in Amiga and Amiga OS came with some Emacs clone.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by pjmlp on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:02AM (#45632490)

I surely don't remember such clone.

As for where Vim was born, hardly matters, it was someone with UNIX culture background, that happened to own an Amiga.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by anthk on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:08AM (#45632711)

Amiga OS 3.1 has it under the Workbench floppy sets. You get it by default.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by pjmlp on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:45PM (#45636194)

Amiga 500 was shipped with AmigaOS 1.2 in 1987, Amiga OS 3.1 was released in 1994, almost at the end of the commercial life of Amiga.

As the sibling comment points out, MicroEmacs isn't really Emacs.

Also Emacs history is older than UNIX, and overlaps with Lisp Machines.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by tralarpa on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:26AM (#45632783)

> I surely don't remember such clone.

I think they mean MicroEmacs. Despite its name, it was not Emacs, but it had Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts, multiple buffers, and macros, which was quite neat for a free 1986 application on a home computer.

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Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost by pjmlp on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:02PM (#45636369)

I guess that is it, thank for the memory refresher, and to be more precise, MEmacs.

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