Edlin

Edlin
Original author(s)Tim Paterson
Developer(s)Microsoft, IBM, Gregory Pietsch
Initial release1980 (1980)
Written inMS-DOS: x86 assembly language
Operating system86-DOS, IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows
SuccessorMS-DOS Editor
TypeLine editor
LicenseMS-DOS: MIT
FreeDOS, ReactOS: GPL
86-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, Windows: Proprietary commercial software
WebsiteEdlin

Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continued to be included in the 32-bit versions of Microsoft operating systems up to Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10.