[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <SL-dnUDFmOL_5ybXnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> I had to use SOS early in my VMS career!  EDT was available but it 
> required a DEC terminal, VT-52, VT-100 or VT-200.  Nobody had realized 
> before we ordered our VAX, that it required proprietary terminals.  SOS 
> wasn't too bad as an editor but I replaced as soon as wee got some VT 
> compatible third party terminals for which we payed about $600 instead 
> of the ~$2,000 each VT-220s.

   SOS, which was basically the same as TOPS-20 EDIT, is an editor I've
   gladly left behind.  By comparison, TECO, which I learned on TOPS-10
   but found was not as productive as EDIT on TOPS-20, is one I keep
   finding uses for on VMS.  And I'd gladly keep using EDT if I didn't
   have such a heavily customized TPU section developed prior to the
   ship of the supported EDT emulation.