Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS DOS Editor , bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built with Rust and simply called Edit, works on Windows, macOS, and—in a twist that would have seemed unlikely three decades ago—Linux. The cross platform availability has delighted longtime users who never expected to see Microsoft text editor running on their preferred operating system. 30 years of...
