I could use the basic functions of Edlin back then, when I was 7 or 8, but I have absolutely no idea how to do anything with it anymore. I'd have to look it up.
Totally recognized the grandparent post's prompt $p$g though.
Something similar happened to me when I ran an Apple II emulator for the first time. Even though it had been years since I last used a real Apple //c, seeing the prompt in the correct font with the cursor blink at the exact right tempo rewired my brain on the fly and I was typing commands and writing BASIC programs almost immediately.
I still fire it up occasionally to play through my old games and look at my old programs. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Wow, this is awesome! How can I upload original disk images? Can we get an 8086 emulator with VGA? I would love to have all of my old games & software available in the browser. (Scorched Earth, Infocom, Sierra, etc.)
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My instinct immediately made me type prompt $p$g from something buried keep in my memory!
Basic works and you can make a program within a program within a browser. Ha.
Totally recognized the grandparent post's prompt $p$g though.
I still fire it up occasionally to play through my old games and look at my old programs. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
First thing I did was run BASIC and start poking and peeking. Ah, the good old days.
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