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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/1/2019 9:30 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> 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.

ICE (Illinois Center Editor) was pretty cool for a line editor.

Arne