On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 9:21 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was going to say that ed(1) was from an earlier time, before the > divisions of today. > > Sometime in the early 1980s, I used a line editor on some kind of mainframe > at OSU, I think it was a Honeywell. The editor had a name like xedit. I > have gone looking for any references to it, and found nothing. As a natural > hoarder, I find this kind of historical obliteration disturbing. Maybe > this has a reference: > https://grothoff.org/christian/teaching/2009/3400/l3.pdf > > > > I wrote Fortran on a hard copy terminal that was connected via satellite > to a Cray at Lawrence Livermore Labs or to some machine that fed the Cray > in batches. But I don't remember the name of that editor either. Bill Barry > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
