I'm looking for text editors/word processors for CP/M and especially MP/M (there are many, and some are quite decent) and came across VEDIT, which name I guess I remember, but never used. It was commercial and I used two I had access to as was common.
New in 1978, it was actively maintained up through the late 80s, and the SAME SOURCE TREE compiles the CP/M-80, MP/M-80, and MSDOS 8086 versions!! Talk about #permacomputing.
It's in 8080/z80/8086 assembly language. THere's 20 or so source files, and some get passed through more than once. It's wild.
It relies on the TDL/PSA assembler PASM, which I used for years, both CPU versions, though it's been so long I might as well have not used it as far as memory goes.
The authors have released source to it all. I may have successfully compiled it on the z80; tomorrow I'll see if I can tell.
Its complicated.
https://github.com/johnsonjh/VEDIT
It's pretty freakin' amazing that it persisted for so long, and still does, more or less.
tom jennings
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