What is "PDP"? The 16, 18 and 36 bit architectures are very different from each other.
Of the top of my head: 12: LINC, LINC-8, 5, 8 16: 11 18: 1, 4, 7, 9, 15 32: VAX-11 36: 6, 10, DECSYSTEM-20 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2023 1:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: vi On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:08:09 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: >In 1978, the class in PDP assembler used ed. Didn't mention vi. >Discovering vi was quite helpful to my progress in the class. > Mavens have cautioned me that I should master ed lest I am ever confined to a terminal lacking the capabilities needed by vi. I've ignored them, so far. 3278? But ed : vi :: TSO EDIT : ISPF. PDP? ed, not TECO? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
