I was using a PDP8/i back around 1973.  I don't remember TECO.  Maybe it 
came in with the /e?  Or maybe it's just the passage of time ...

On Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 9:57:45 AM UTC-4 David Szent-Györgyi wrote:

> The TECO text editor was designed to edit files that were too large to fit 
> in memory. I used TECO on a PDP8/e minicomputer; the 8/e used 12-bit words; 
> memory was addressed in 128-word pages and 4096-word fields. 
>
> The original implementation of Emacs was a set of "editor macros" written 
> in TECO. Maybe this means that the old joke that every program accrues 
> features to become more like Emacs has it wrong; every program grows to 
> become more like TECO. *grin*
>

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