Personal Editor (PE) and Personal Editor II (PE2) was a text editor developed by
IBM
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for
IBM PC DOS
IBM PC DOS (an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System),Formally known as "The IBM Personal Computer DOS" from versions 1.0 through 3.30, as reported in those versions' respective COMMAND.COM outputs also known as PC DOS or IBM ...
and
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ...
in the 1980s. It became popular because of its easy, fast, and programmable (custom keyboard shortcuts) user interface.
PE influenced its successor
text editors
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to ...
, such as
Personal Editor 32, a modern 32-bit editor with a
user interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fro ...
based on PE2, and
QE, a text editor for
Linux
Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
systems.
Personal Editor 3(PE3) is an open source implementation for 64 bit Linux and Windows 10+ running Intel compatible processors, implemented using th
SNOBOL5programming language.
For Asia-Pacific region, IBM Japan released a
DBCS version of Personal Editor for
IBM 5550
IBM 5550 is a personal computer series that IBM marketed in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China in the 1980s and 1990s, for business use customers. In Japan, it was introduced in 1983 and promoted as "" because it had three roles in one machine: a Pers ...
and
PS/55.
It was available in IBM's lineup over the years,
although the
E editor came with PC DOS since version 6.1.
See also
*
E (PC DOS)
E is the text editor which was made part of PC DOS with version 6.1 in June 1993, in February 1995 with version 7 and later with PC DOS 2000. In version 6.1, IBM dropped QBASIC, which, in its edit mode, was also the system text editor. It was ne ...
References
External links
PE2 on Text Editors WikiPersonal Editor 32 website
DOS text editors
IBM software
DOS software
Console applications
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