[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:57:44 +0100, R.A.Omond wrote:

> 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 ?

Or was it ECCE? I have the VMS version here...





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