⚡️💻 TECH - A former Microsoft engineer has created a new text editor called TinyRetroPad, only 2.5KB in size
Dave Plummer, who created Windows Task Manager during his time at Microsoft, said Notepad was originally designed as a basic text editor, while WordPad handled more advanced formatting.
He believes Notepad has become too complicated over the years with features like AI writing tools.
TinyRetroPad is written in x86 assembly and based on Matt Power’s Tiny Editor (DTE). Despite its tiny size, it can open and save text files, change fonts, and print documents using Windows’ built-in features.
“No bloat. No telemetry. No nonsense. Just pure old school Windows done right.”
Dave Plummer, who created Windows Task Manager during his time at Microsoft, said Notepad was originally designed as a basic text editor, while WordPad handled more advanced formatting.
He believes Notepad has become too complicated over the years with features like AI writing tools.
TinyRetroPad is written in x86 assembly and based on Matt Power’s Tiny Editor (DTE). Despite its tiny size, it can open and save text files, change fonts, and print documents using Windows’ built-in features.
“No bloat. No telemetry. No nonsense. Just pure old school Windows done right.”
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