DOS software

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http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

A console text editor.

Jed does radical new things, such as allowing the user to use tab to insert a “tab” character. It represents an incredible new frontier of usability. Oh, and it has a menu, like any real program would.

Unfortunately, it’s misconfigured and there are no clues as to how to fix it. So it’s useless.

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Software >

was www.terminate.com

A modem/BBS terminal program.

One of the top contenders. It is truly frightening, and still very useful today. However, they missed out on some basic functionality and got too complex. Telix and Telemate are two other contenders. Telix, well I don’t know why.. I still use Telemate to this day.. it kicks the pants out of terminate for most of the major simplicity and functionality. Too bad none of them are in development anymore. Hrmph.

  • Competed with Telemate as a category-killer.
  • Abandoned – Between 2021-09-22 and 2021-11-14 the domain expired.



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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
was dillo.org

A lightweight web browser.

I thought it had hope but needed significant work.

  • 2022-07-12 – Apparently abandoned

    • The website is down
    • the source code archive as of 202201280 shows the last activity at 2021-02-09. It was a small change and the update previous to that was 2018-10-05.
    • The mailing list archive doesn’t tell me enough because it’s an old snapshot.



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