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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-31 06:52, Tim Sneddon wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
>> 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 ? :-)
>>
> 
> Correct.  Dan Murphy wrote it on the PDP-1 at MIT between 1962 and 1963.
> Any other TECO nerds (like myself :-) out there might be interested in
> this paper by the creator:
> 
>    The Beginnings of TECO
>    http://tenex.opost.com/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf

I hadn't read that. That was a really good read. Thanks!

   Johnny

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