21 Jun
2022
21 Jun
'22
8:56 a.m.
While I know that there are people here who like good old ed...I've been playing with
UTS under VM/370. This version is from 1981 and I think it's v7. But the important
thing is that Tom Lyon wrote a 3270 terminal driver, and it comes with ned, which is a
screen editor that feels a lot like XEDIT--which wasn't even in CMS at that point,
although EE has been added to the VM370 Community Edition I'm using. And the man
pages are fullscreen as well.
UTS is very, very usable because of that. This really is a wonderful terminal driver.
So, thank you, Tom!
Adam
21 Jun
21 Jun
9:41 a.m.
I overlapped with Pugs at Sun, knew of him, heard he was smart, but didn't
really get it. Then I saw the way he exposed the iommu to user space
(the bang for the buck was for VMs but researchers that were doing user
space networking also used it), that hit my radar screen as really good
work.
He's had a long career of doing useful stuff, pretty much everything he's
touched has gotten better.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 07:56:04PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
While I know that there are people here who like good
old ed...I've been playing with UTS under VM/370. This version is from 1981 and I
think it's v7. But the important thing is that Tom Lyon wrote a 3270 terminal
driver, and it comes with ned, which is a screen editor that feels a lot like XEDIT--which
wasn't even in CMS at that point, although EE has been added to the VM370 Community
Edition I'm using. And the man pages are fullscreen as well.
UTS is very, very usable because of that. This really is a wonderful terminal driver.
So, thank you, Tom!
Adam
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
8:18 p.m.
Thanks, Adam. I've always been proud of that driver.
Further credit - 'ned' was written by Dan Walsh (not the Redhat one), and,
like vi, it has 'ed' buried in it so all the familiar stuff just works.
It's possible to use UTS with ASCII terminals, but the hardware only
supports half-duplex, buffered, mode! I suspect it'd be possible to hack
the 270x emulator in Hercules to make it appear really full-duplex - then
one could add the real 'vi', etc. But that would not be faithful emulation.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 7:56 PM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While I know that there are people here who like good
old ed...I've been
playing with UTS under VM/370. This version is from 1981 and I think it's
v7. But the important thing is that Tom Lyon wrote a 3270 terminal driver,
and it comes with ned, which is a screen editor that feels a lot like
XEDIT--which wasn't even in CMS at that point, although EE has been added
to the VM370 Community Edition I'm using. And the man pages are fullscreen
as well.
UTS is very, very usable because of that. This really is a wonderful
terminal driver.
So, thank you, Tom!
Adam
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