[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Omond at BlueBubble.UK.Com> writes:
>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 ;-)

got it in one.  (though admittedly i used phoenix rather little, i
knew it was a good 'un, and i already had experience of phil's code
from titan days.)

>> 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 ?

i dunno.  i don't have the stuff phil sent me, any more, and i doubt
phil has either (he stopped working on ibm software way before the
last ibm machine disappeared, some time in the early 90s).

probably a lost cause.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge