[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Rich Alderson]

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:

> IanMiller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:
> (snip)

>> SOS, Son of Stopgap - I used that on TOPS10 before I discovered teco :-)

> I used SOS on TOPS10 even after I knew about TECO.

> Previously I had used WYLBUR on IBM systems, and SOS was close
> enough to be easy to learn and use.

> I didn't use TECO until I started working with RT-11.

I used Wylbur and EDIT.EXE (the TOPS-20 version of SOS) until I learned EMACS,
after which I edited my 370 assembler on TOPS-20 and submitted jobs via a HASP
RJE station which was an 11/34 (badged as a DN60).  I learned MIT TECO in order
to do extensions to EMACS; now I'm the official maintainer.

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