[Info-vax] In praise of DEC's keypad power

[George Cornelius]

Slo <slovuj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm surprised that in recent EDT discussions no one here 
> mentioned K52/KED, the editors I remember using on RSX-11, 
> around 1980. EDT and the rest must have evolved
> from them - the mapping and functions are 100% identical.
> 
> https://avitech.com.au/?page_id=959
> 
> I remember clearly when a colleague showed it to me, and
> I shrugged it away. After all, I felt productive with
> EDI. Where are the line numbers in KED? How do you
> know where you are and how do you jump to line 55?
> Moving around the screen just felt so inferior, almost a toy,
> I was totally confused. Screen editing???

Went to RSX11M school - two weeks in Bedford - way back when.
They had us use EDI. But got back home and began using EDT
version 1.  Quite limited and not much like the screen mode
in V2.

When EDT 2.0 arrived for 11M it was much nicer, but overlaid to
the hilt. Better on 11M+ with supervisor mode libraries and
separate I&D space.  I decided it was maybe Bliss and being
cross-compiled on the 36 bit systems and therefore suffered
from a bit of bloat compared to the other editors.

Did not use KED until later when I got an RT-11 system
at home.  Do not know if it was EDT or KED that was the
original.

George