On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Russell Senior wrote:
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.
In the mid- to late-1970s I used TDP (Text and Data Processor), a line-oriented editor on a monochrome terminal in my lab that was connected by 1200 baud audio modem to an HP-3000 mini-computer at the Idaho State University computer in the Business School. I used it to type my dissertation. My problem was not paying attention to the character counter on the screen and neglecting to press the [Return] key after 80 characters so I routinely had lines truncated by TDP. So I had to exit add mode, figure out what was lost in edit mode, then go back to add mode. Of course, typos and other changes required switching to delete mode. A typewriter would have been easier. :-) Printing hard copy used a Diablo electronic typewriter with me standing there feeding in one page at a time and removing each typed page. For six copies of the dissertation. That's why I don't like vi (vim) and much prefer the page-oriented emacs as a text editor. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
