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Well, yes, but actually no. It's more like MS-DOS's
EDIT.COM
since it runs in a command line / "DOS" window.In fact, since
EDIT.COM
went through a couple of distinct variants back in the day, you could say that this is the third variant of it.The other two being 1) the BASIC-deactivated side of
QBASIC.EXE
which was an editor and programming language in one, and then 2) a stand-alone, from the ground up, version (with no BASIC to disable) which came along with Win9x / MS-DOS 7.I keep a copy of the latter in my DOSBox config. It's only 70kB.