[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[Michael Moroney]

helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:

>Similarly, at some point EDT was VESTed or whatever.  But I recall 
>someone here saying that he had a new version, removing the 255 and 
>65535 limits.

No, there was never a need to VEST EDT, it does build on Alpha and Itanic. I am the
guy who modified EDT. I removed the hardcoded all-terminals-have-24-lines
assumptions that hasn't been true since DECwindows had virtual terminal windows of
any size, not the 255 characters/line limit.  EDT code is also quite convoluted, the
255 characters/line assumption is much harder to remove since the line length field
is an unsigned byte. Just not as bad as TECO.

This EDT was checked in about two years ago in a version of VMS that would be V8.5
but probably won't see the light of day since there really aren't enough
customer-visible new features/changes (EDT didn't count :-) ) to release it. Lots of
stuff under the hood that will be needed for V9.x however.