[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Rich Alderson]

cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

> In article <mddo7lo2nd4.fsf at panix5.panix.com>,
> Rich Alderson  <news at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

>> I only know enough vi to edit the password file (using the vipw command), or in
>> the old days before autoconfiguration I could edit the Emacs configuration files
>> to install a decent editor.

> Over the years,I've found it useful to retain facility with
> several different editors, selecting between them based on
> context.  If I'm working on plan9, I'll use acme or sam; if
> I'm on Unix, vi, though knowing how to use `ed` has been very
> useful in many surprising ways; if I'm programming in Lisp, or
> using Multics or TOPS-20, then emacs; on VMS I use EDT; etc.
> For work-a-day programming these days I like VS Code with the
> language server support.

Fortunately for me, all the systems on which I worked prior to building PGA's
museum had versions of Emacs available.  (Well, OK, not the IBM mainframes, but
I could transfer files from a DEC-20 so did my editing there...)

On VMS at the museum, I used TECO because it didn't require a lot of study, as
I was using it on PDP-8 and PDP-11 and DEC-10 systems already.

Different strokes for different folks, no?

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