[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:30:10 +0100, R.A.Omond wrote:

> 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...

Oh, I know it was an Edinburgh creation. But it seems to turn up 
everywhere!

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