From: steve.mynott@gmail.com (Steve Mynott)
Subject: [TUHS] UK written UNIX line editor in early 80s?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANuZA8S8H-whmzRQnsMufAPoAqPKgZi6nkYGha+-d5RE6nvi1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In the autumn of 1984 as an undergrad at Durham University (UK) I
remember using a Pascal compiler (pc) on a BSD4.1 system (bumped after
several months to 4.1c and running I would guess on a small VAX?) and
using a strange line editor (probably because the terminal had crude
screen handling capabilities?).
I can't remember much about it other than it seemed to resemble ex. I
think I was told it was written in the UK and doing some Googling
suggests it may have been "em" (Editor for Mortals) from Queen Mary
College.
However, the time frame for that editor was late 70s and it would have
been quite old by 1984. So my current theory is that it was a fork
(maybe with a different name) or later version?
Anyone use this editor or anything similar around 1984?
--
4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <steve.mynott at gmail.com>
next reply other threads:[~2017-04-13 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-13 19:19 Steve Mynott [this message]
2017-04-13 20:35 ` Adam Sampson
2017-04-13 21:31 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-13 21:35 ` Alec Muffett
2017-04-13 21:46 ` Warren Toomey
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CANuZA8S8H-whmzRQnsMufAPoAqPKgZi6nkYGha+-d5RE6nvi1g@mail.gmail.com \
--to=steve.mynott@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).