29 Mar
2022
29 Mar
'22
11:46 p.m.
Was it one of the awful Pukin-Elmer terminals. I hated those things.
Then there was the Rand/Interactive Systems INed. We were stuck using
that when I worked for Martin.
I never learned vi. If there is no EMACS-like thing on the machine,
then I just use ed (sometimes I can get by with ex/vi in line mode).
The funniest editor story I have is one day I'm working at Martin.
Having actually heard of UNIX before (let alone having done kernel and
other work) I was sort of the in house expert. One day one of my
coworkers calls out to me:
"What's all this Bell System crud in the editor?"
I'm thinking, well, it's all Bell System crud. What specifically are
we talking about. I walk around to see his terminal and find he has
been typing 1 repeatedly to the shell prompt invoking our /usr/bin/1
that said "One Bell System, It Works."
After that I modded the program to say "You're not in the editor,
Bernie."
It was almost as much fun as putting "You might have mail." in motd.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Steve Simon" <steve(a)quintile.net>
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: 3/29/2022 3:09:52 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old screen editors
I never really used it but i do remember an editor called le on the v7 interdata/Perkin
Elmer i used at Leeds poly.
I read electronics and we all used vi, the computer science people at a different campus
used le on their Interdata; no idea why.
anyone any background on le? ihave not seen sight nor sound of it since.
-Steve