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

[Michael Moroney]

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

>On 2018-05-29, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>>BTW, has anyone asked you if TECO is going to be available on x86-64 ? :-)
>>
>> A major fan of TECO works for VSI and he will be sure it's in X86...

>That editor has now been around in one form or the other since the
>early 1960s - I wonder how much longer it will be around for ? :-)

Apparently that's the reason why the TECO code is so ugly. It's been 
ported from one machine to another, possibly by a conversion program in
some cases, and by the time it made it to VAX the code was so ugly the
Alpha Macro-32 compiler wouldn't accept it, and nobody would (could?)
fix the code so that it would.  (It's VESTed on Alpha and the VESTed
Alpha code is AESTed on Itanic)