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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/29/19 11:25 PM, George Cornelius wrote:
> In article <qa107q$fdh$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, 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.
> 
> Had not heard of EDT being VESTed.  It was in Bliss, after all.
> 
> PITA on the PDP-11, though, because it was developed in Bliss-36
> and then shoehorned into 16-bit address space via a pile of ODL
> (overlay description language).  Much more reasonable if you had
> 11M+ with separated I and D space and memory resident overlays.

I assume you mean building it because I never found using it
on a PDP-11 to be a PITA.  I like it.

But, by the time I started using VMS there was EVE and TPU so I
really didn't use EDT much on the VAX.

Just out of curiosity, did the version that eventually made it to
VMS have "NOKEYPAD MODE"?

bill