[email protected] (Webster, Chris) writes: > I remember using full screen editors named EDGAR and FUSE prior to > XEDIT. Don't remember which came first or their official IBM status.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#105 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#106 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? There was EDGAR product ... then where were several internal editors with wide distribution. I was trying to get Endicott to release RED when they hit on XEDIT. At the time, RED was significantly faster, more function and much more mature than XEDIT ... but there was some amount of NIH. At one point Endicott said it was the RED authors fault that RED was significantly better than XEDIT ... and therefor it should be the RED author's responsibility to fix XEDIT. old email apologizing to the RED author for how bolixed up it became. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800311 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800312 some earlier comparison http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email790606 another RED/XEDIT email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email810531 this mentions including RED3.4 & XEDIT in my internal distribution of a vm370 release 6 (one of my hobbies was doing distribution and support of enhanced, production operating systems for internal datacenters) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800429 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800501 from melinda's history Edgar (the "Display Editing System"), a program product full-screen editor written by Bob Carroll, also came out in 1976. Edgar was the first full-screen editor IBM made available to customers, although customers had previously written and distributed full-screen editors themselves, and Lynn Wheeler and Ed Hendricks had both written full-screen editors for 2250s under CMS-67. ... and There can be no question that by releasing XEDIT in 1980, IBM gave CMS a new lease on life. Within no time, programmers and end users were building large, sophisticated applications based entirely on XEDIT, stretching it to its limits and doing things with it that IBM had never envisioned. That they were able to do that was a tribute to XEDIT's author, Xavier de Lamberterie.(130) (If you've ever wondered where the "X" in "XEDIT" came from, now you know--it was Xavier here.) ... snip ... past posts mentioning RED/XEDIT: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#22 When did full-screen come to VM/370? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#39 20th anniversary of the internet (fwd) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#55 The very first text editor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#5 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#43 handling the SPAM on this group http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#54 THE runs in DOS box? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#36 Idiotic programming style edicts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#11 Information on obscure text editors wanted http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#95 VM IS DEAD http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#44 CMS load module format http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#102 Typeface (font) and city identity http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#89 Real Programmers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#23 Three Reasons the Mainframe is in Trouble -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
