[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <nz4P8Fesn1fg at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> 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.

I vaguely remember hating SOS, but our documentation guy liked it. 
Before a decent EDT keypad emulation for TPU came along I was working at 
customers a lot and my first job on being granted an account was to 
define my own TPU section with an EDT keypad. I did have it on TK50, but 
obviously not many places would let me load from that.

-- 
Paul Sture