<s>
Brief	O
(	O
stylized	O
BRIEF	O
or	O
B.R.I.E.F.	O
,	O
a	O
backronym	O
for	O
Basic	O
Reconfigurable	O
Interactive	O
Editing	O
Facility	O
)	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
once-popular	O
programmer	O
's	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
in	O
the	O
1980s	O
and	O
early	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
released	O
for	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
,	O
then	O
IBM	B-Application
OS/2	I-Application
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1990	O
Solutions	O
Systems	O
brought	O
in	O
Eric	O
Perkins	O
as	O
technical	O
architect	O
and	O
team	O
lead	O
to	O
port	O
the	O
OS/2	B-Application
version	O
of	O
Brief	O
to	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
platform	O
as	O
quickly	O
as	O
possible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Within	O
6	O
months	O
,	O
the	O
team	O
of	O
Eric	O
Perkins	O
,	O
Blake	O
Nelson	O
and	O
Jeff	O
Simpson	O
worked	O
closely	O
with	O
David	O
Nanian	O
and	O
Mike	O
Strickman	O
and	O
ported	O
Brief	O
OS/2	B-Application
to	O
Windows	B-Application
using	O
an	O
MVC	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
Vim	B-Application
and	O
Emacs	B-Application
packages	O
provide	O
Brief	O
functionality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Brief	O
keyboard	O
layout	O
became	O
popular	O
and	O
was	O
implemented	O
in	O
or	O
emulated	O
by	O
other	O
editors	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Lugaru	O
Epsilon	O
,	O
by	O
providing	O
a	O
remapping	O
of	O
the	O
keyboard	O
shortcuts	O
and	O
editor	O
behavior	O
;	O
dBase	B-Application
,	O
an	O
early	O
DOS-day	O
database	O
,	O
also	O
copied	O
this	O
keyboard	O
mapping	O
.	O
</s>
