[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pejh51$qjd$2 at pcls7.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> >> > EDT,
> >> 
> >> You are kidding, right ?
> 
> >Not at all.
> 
> People love EDT or despise it.
> 
> I mentioned this before but I will repeat it. A while back I eliminated 
> the annoying 24 line terminal assumption from EDT and released it
> internally (to VSI). After then a few people came up to me and thanked
> me for doing so. It was almost like being at an AA meeting, with people
> saying: "My name is Joe Smith, and...and I use EDT" followed by a thank 
> you.

Another reason I am waiting for VMS on x86.  It WILL be part of the 
distribution, right?

What about the other assumptions (maxima of 65535 commands at once, 255 
characters in a line)?  In practice, these aren't a big problem (and, 
for me, neither is the 24-line limit), but it would be nice if they were 
removed (or greatly increased).

I can type fast; I learned (on a semi-electric typewriter) about 40 
years ago.  Even of fast hardware, with TPU sometimes the cursor lags 
behind my fingers.  The end-of-line handling in TPU leaves something to 
be desired, EDT is better with special characters, it starts up faster, 
and so on.