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<H1><A NAME="SEC172" HREF="ne_toc.html#TOC172">History</A></H1>
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The main inspiration for this work came from Martin Taillefer's
<CODE>TurboText</CODE> for the Amiga, which is the best editor I ever saw on
any computer.
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The first versions of <CODE>ne</CODE> were created on an Amiga 3000T, using
the port of the <CODE>curses</CODE> library by Simon John Raybould. After
switching to the lower-level <CODE>terminfo</CODE> library, the development
continued under UN*X. Finally, I ported <CODE>terminfo</CODE> to the
Amiga, thus making it possible to develop on that platform again. For
<CODE>ne</CODE> 1.0, an effort has been made to provide a <CODE>terminfo</CODE>
emulation using GNU's <CODE>termcap</CODE>.
The development eventually moved to LINUX.
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Todd Lewis got involved with <CODE>ne</CODE> when the University of North
Carolina's Chapel Hill campus migrated its central research computers
from MVS to UNIX in 1995. The readily available UNIX editors
had serious weaknesses in their user interfaces, especially from the
standpoint of MVS users who were not too excited about having to move
their projects to another platform while learning an entirely new suite
of tools. <CODE>ne</CODE> offered an easily understood interface with enough
capabilities to keep these new UNIX users productive. Todd installed and
has maintained UNIX at UNC since then, making several improvements to the
code to meet his users' needs. In early 1999 his code base and
mine were merged to become version 1.17.
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