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From: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
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Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
Keywords: Editors Old Present
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Date: 31 Oct 90 03:11:52 GMT
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In <1990Oct31.011215.23303@cbnewsk.att.com>, linwood@cbnewsk.att.com writes:
> Boy,  
> I'm glad you were fair about it!!! Damn,  I always wondered what VMS
>was like in the STONE AGE.  I was talikng about a later, much later
>version than 1.6.  Like, somewhere close to the present.  Maybe one
>should look at the present before hollering about how hard it was in the
>past.

 I have to agree with terry about the line editing -- even in 5.4. It
SUCKS. (And it's exactly how he described it .. do set
term/dev=unknown and try doing edit foo.bar). TPU is still great
though -- I've learned to love Emacs, though TPU still has a really
good feel to it.


Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu [ Well, in 1990 I hope. ]
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