[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

R.A.Omond Roy.Omond at BlueBubble.UK.Com
Fri Oct 2 06:57:44 EDT 2009


Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>  [...snip...]
> 
> when we first got our vax, i started a porting exercise for a rather
> more rational line-based editor by an old colleague at the university.

Robin, that wouldn't have been ZED by Phil Hazel by any chance ?  One of
my all-time favourite line-mode editors (I'm also an old Phoenix user
from the mid-1970s ;-)

> we bought (rather grotty) compatibles, and worked with them for a long
> time.  their arrival stopped my porting effort (it was going slowly
> anyway, due to workload).

Worth resurrecting the porting effort ?



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