> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I would love to get the source code to that thing. If you were writing C
>> source then it would automatically fill in all the K&R structures for you
>> on
>> the fly. It was a little bit of a surprise the first time I started an if
>> clause. I started to type "if ( " and by the time I finished the space
>> after the "(" the OS/2 editor filled in the options as well as an "else"
>> and
>> all the braces with indentation etc etc. It did similar things with
>> Fortran
>> source.
>>
>> don't know what ever happened to that .. I'll have to install OS/2 Warp
>> into
>> a VMWare instance and see what I can see.
>>
>> Dennis
>
> I think you are talking about IBM's Enhanced Editor. Before I discovered
> UNIX that was my editor of choice. That was until I actually tried
> Emacs, it does all of that and more.
>
> Bill
> rushmores.net
>
emacs .. an OS all by itself almost :-)
Well OS/2 fell into my life long after UNIX had moved in. I was spoiled
rotten ( to the core ) by the Apollo systems in the 80's that had such
incredibly sweet graphics systems in them as well as development tools
that were way ahead of their time.
http://www.machine-room.org/images/pictures/hires/160/22/Apollo_DN10000.jpg
I was in a military unit that had stacks of Apollo systems and multiple
DN10000 units. The new Sun gear was just starting to arrive. Apollo
had a graphic logo in them somewhere that mocked the early Sun units :
http://apollo.maxnt.co.jp/apollo/logo/sun.jpg
I remember seeing that as well as the new Sun floor standing models in
the same room with the Apollo gear. The visual debugging tools and code
management tools in the Apollo systems was exceptional. OpenGL did not
exist yet but it allowed for substantial graphics primitives and Gourand
shading and vertex arrays etc etc. Made my life pretty damn easy. Then
HP came along and wrecked the hell out it :
http://apollo.maxnt.co.jp/apollo/logo/victim.jpg
I didn't fully realize that until I was at Pratt & Whitney trying to do
serious number crunching with an IBM 3090 mainframe and Fortran IV.
I felt like someone had dropped me into the stone age and asked me to
invent the Jaguar XKE by banging rocks and sticks together :
http://www.dupontregistry.com/sitemap/auto/images/jaguar-xke.jpg
The IBM gear was real fast but I never saw anything on my desk other
than a 3270 type IBM terminal.
When OS/2 version 1.0 arrived I had it dropped on my desk for its
initial assessment. I ended up becoming the local OS/2 guru and by
the time OS/2 1.3EE was out I was in Lotus working on something called
Notes. Needless to say I ended up looking at a lot of code via that
enhanced editor. ( I also had a Sparc 10 on my desk. sweet! ) [1]
emacs is probably larger now than OS/2 and the Apollo OS's put together.
Dennis
[1] personal history joke : I received a call from a small Lotus Notes
customer. I think they were KPMG or similar. I was a geek and
had no bloody clue so when the guy asked me about Lotus Notes on
the Mac System 7 I laughed and told him to drop that trash. I let
him know that Lotus was stopping development on all Mac ports and
that he had better jump to OS/2 or Sun and quickly. I went so far
as to say that Apple would be bankrupt in five years anyways. In
1992 I was right I think. That little phone call ended up making
me the point man for Macintosh System 7 codework. Management had
a dim view on me telling a customer that their platform of choice
was dead and that we were not going to support it anyways. I got
a Mac Quadra on my desk also now and it play music beautifully.
What else could I do? We were dropping support for it!
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