IBM's Personal Editor II (PE II) was a mainstream text editor before the CCED and WPS eras. Similar to vi under unix, it operates with commands rather than menus.
PE II may not be as well - known in the Chinese mainland during the same period as WordStar, but in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it was the No. 1 Editor.
｛Thanks, already found｝P.S. By the way, does any friend have the old version, Chinese -汉化 version of WordStar? I want to relive the old times. Now only relatively new versions after 3.3 can be found on the Internet, and they are all in English. I want to relive the Chinese -汉化 version back then. I hope some friends can share.｝
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PE II may not be as well - known in the Chinese mainland during the same period as WordStar, but in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it was the No. 1 Editor.
｛Thanks, already found｝P.S. By the way, does any friend have the old version, Chinese -汉化 version of WordStar? I want to relive the old times. Now only relatively new versions after 3.3 can be found on the Internet, and they are all in English. I want to relive the Chinese -汉化 version back then. I hope some friends can share.｝
At that time, the most popular one was a set of interesting simple text editors, PE II.
"Where is PE II interesting?"
It turned out that PE II was a software "exclusively for internal use by companies" developed by IBM. It was not released to the public at all. Originally, this software (information can still be found on the Internet, developed by Jim Wyllie) was just to make it more convenient for programmers to write code. Because of its simple functions and simple interface, it did not cause the problem of "abnormal interface" in Chinese systems like other English software, so it unexpectedly became the king of Chinese document processing at that time.
However, precisely because its functions were too simple, it had none of the functions that could make the document "a little better". Yes, repeat three times, "none at all". For example, if you want to print a table? It doesn't support; if you want to print the article title in bold font? Sorry, no. In order to solve these problems, the Eten Chinese system also provided some special "print control codes", but you have to memorize these control codes, and the operation method is actually quite unintuitive. And inserting all kinds of strange control codes in the document (what does ~T24W2Z2G2 mean?) I think even you yourself won't know what you were doing when you see the document next time!
(Note: n represents a number, then ~Tnn: font size, ~Wnn: horizontal magnification, ~Znn: vertical magnification, ~G2: table connection, and other control code families are too numerous to mention. Do you miss these control codes? Oh no, you are also getting old!)
[ Last edited by sswv on 2008 - 11 - 1 at 20:53 ]
