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The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost

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* Issue #768 by @hnl [code]

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* IDEs we had 30 years ago

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* IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

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* GitHub - magiblot/tvision: A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

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* GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.

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* Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto âSmalltalk-76 Demo

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* The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X

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* GitHub - magiblot/turbo: An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision.

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