The BombSquad @bombsquad.dev · Feb 13 Vim is actually quite a pleasant experience on an 8088 with 640k of RAM, especially with turbo enabled! The last version of Vim to support MS-DOS was 7.4, but an install of that version would take up nearly half of my 25 megabyte hard drive... so I'm using version 4.6 instead. #retrocomputing
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One mild annoyance is how getting interrupted by writing a swap file to floppy takes a few seconds. That's how I learned about the `updatetime` and `updatecount` variables, for determining after how many characters/seconds after inactivity to trigger saving. (200 chars or 4secs by default)