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

[John Santos]

In article <qa7epa$ihg$1 at dont-email.me>, davef at tsoft-
inc.com says...
> 
> On 4/29/2019 12:52 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> 
> > Not the first time I went against the grain with editors. In college, the
> > engineering and CS departments pushed an editor developed locally by a professor
> > there. All classes which had terminal access (we still used punched cards) taught
> > the local editor in the class. Someone else got a hold of another editor, and I
> > prefered it. I even got the source code and improved it somewhat. (these were all
> > line mode editors, primitive even compared to EDT. The editor that came with the
> > operating system (CDC NOS) was absolutely horrible, nobody used it)
> >
> 
> As with many things, you'll always hear from the "neys" much more than 
> from the "yeas".
> 
> I still use EDT.  Does it have some warts?  Sure enough.  But it does 
> the job, and, I'm used to it.
> 
> I too have worked on editors, back in the day the company I was with 
> wrote a line editor, on RSTS, in Basic+.  Simple but effective, for it's 
> day.  Also had a print queue and some other tools.
> 
> The 255 char line limit can be an issue, but not for programming.  I 
> never edited a file with near to 65K lines.
> 
> Just thought you could hear another "yea" ...

Hmmm.  My editor for a CDC was an 029 card punch...