[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[R.A.Omond]

Bob Eager wrote:
> 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...

Bob, I somehow doubt it would have been ECCE - that was an Edinburgh
creation.  Robin's been at Cambridge for at least 100 years ;-)

Interesting nevertheless...