[Info-vax] TECO, was: Re: What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Michael Moroney]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

>On 2016-10-08, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-07 22:29, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>>> $ set response/mode=really_really_mischievous
>>>
>>> So, is TECO going to be available on x86-64 ? (Not that I've used
>>> it in over 20 years).
>>
>> If VSI is able to write IEST, there will, I guess.

>(BTW, for people who don't know, the first TECO was created in the
>early 1960s. That makes it older than I am.)

And the story goes that the VAX TECO code was so bizarre and convoluted
that they never tried to convert it to Alpha, so the executable image was
just VESTed.  When Itanic came along, the VAX TECO code was still bizarre
and convoluted, but there were still diehards in VMS Engineering who still
used and wanted it, so the VESTed Alpha image was AESTed.  When x86 VMS
comes along....?  Thus my post.

I never looked at the source myself.