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

[Michael Moroney]

Galen <gltackett at gmail.com> writes:

>I remember. At least two editors for NOS. One was line oriented and the other 
>screen oriented. My department st Lockheed in Sunnyvale used half duplex
>terminal connections, causing  the editor command keys to get echoed on top 
>of your text, so you were constantly hitting Refresh to make it look right 
>again. Was that editor called FME? Can't remember for certain. If
>I have the acronym right, I think it stood for Forms Mode Editor.

I never used that screen editor on NOS. The yucky line editor was simply EDIT if
I remember. It was extremely picky about syntax which was excessive. For example
EDT line mode has s/abc/xyz/ to change the string abc to xyz. This EDIT had 
something like change:/abc/,/xyz/ with the colon/comma necessary. Tedious after
a while.  The homegrown editor I mentioned was called BED, the rogue editor I
used was UCEDIT if I recall. I probably still have its source on 9 track tape.