20 Jul
2025
20 Jul
'25
6:27 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Also, remember that for the early DEC PDPs 1/6/10 machines, there were
Stopgap, SonOfStopgap (*a.k.a.* SOS - which became DEC's EDIT), Teco, and
eventually EMACS [remember UNIX emacs is a clone of the original
TOPS-10/ITS EMACS]; and probably others that I am forgetting - those the
ones I used in PDP-10 days.
TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) was interesting in a couple of ways. All
of its commands were a single character. It was also programmable in a
very powerful way. EMACS was first implemented as a set of TECO macros
(the name EMACS is an acronym for Editor MACroS).
-Paul W.