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Another Interesting find... IBM DOS 5 was the only version of IBM DOS ever to include the famous DOS editor EDIT.COM. Earlier versions came with EDLIN.COM, later versions included E.EXE.
@dfx
That has a qbasic look!
@argv_minus_one
@sirber @argv_minus_one Of course... the MS-DOS-Editor was nothing but QBASIC in a special editor mode.
@sirber @dfx @argv_minus_one
That look was called CUA/SAA back in the days. Borland followed it too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Systems_Application_Architecture
@dfx Dare I ask: What was so famous about EDIT.COM? Just rare? Or weird features?
@CowboyWho EDIT.COM was first included in MS-DOS 5. It was also part of MS-DOS 6.0, 6.2, 6.22, Windows 95, NT4, Windows 2000 and all 32-bit systems until Windows 10. It was the go-to command-line editor for many years. Yes, I'd call it famous.
@dfx I used to run IBM DOS 5 with QBASIC on my Model 75.
I really miss that system.
@dfx A screen I never thought I'd see again. Ah, the memories.
@dfx Lol, did they just take MS-DOS edit and swap in their name instead?
@nazokiyoubinbou Yeah, pretty much. IBM DOS was just a rebrand of MS-DOS. At least until version 5.0.