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   From: sgillettnospam@diespammergte.net   
      
   "jt august" wrote ...   
   >   
   > Atari 8-bits had the easiest to use screen editor in Atari Basic.  If   
   > you made a mistake on a line, all you had to do was cursor up to the   
   > error, key in the correction (using insert and/or delete if needed) and   
   > hit enter.  If only other machines had as easy an editor.  I cannot   
   > remember for sure, but I think the C=64 was about as easy.  The   
   > Applesoft basic wasn't as easy, but then it came before Atari and C=64,   
   > so they had to create what they did based on nothing before them.   
   >   
   > And besides, Bill Gates did Applesoft Basic for the Woz.   
      
   Bill Gates and company did the first version of Commodore BASIC also.  Later   
   versions, although based on the original MicroSoft BASIC, were improved by   
   Commodores software engineers.  The screen editor on the Commodore was done   
   by in-house software engineers at Commodore.   
      
   Having never used the Atari screen editor, I can't really compare the two.  I   
   can only say that the screen editors on the C64 and C128 were quite easy to   
   use.   
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