Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!pt!andrew.cmu.edu!mc35+ From: mc35+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Chance) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 upgrade (IBM bashing) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 11:15:37 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.YV69qNy00VsGtdU0h5 Posted: Thu Aug 6 11:15:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 11:02:43 EDT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: <135@tscs.UUCP> > Actually, IBM did not write the Personal Editor, a person by the name of Jim > Wyllie did. IBM only distributed it in their Personally Developed Software > library. So the quest continues in search of a good program written by IBM :-). Do not jump to conclusions so fast! It happens that Jim Wyllie works at the Almaden Research Center of IBM. The initial version of PE was written over a Thanksgiving holiday. It was released inside IBM as ED and used and tested quite heavily. Then it was released as Personal Editor in a pastel denim binder (pdb). He then created PE II some time later which was sold through Personally Developed Software. Actually 'Personally Developed Software' was a euphemism for 'Developed by IBM employees in their spare time at home'. It is unfortunate for everyone that the program has been discontinued. The good news for PE is that I believe there has been a 'statement of intent' to support some form of it under OS/2. Mark Chance mc35+ @ andrew.cmu.edu Information Technology Center Carnegie-Mellon / IBM