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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaTECO (I kid you not)
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Date: 28 Dec 90 03:34:49 GMT
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UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) in <90358.124623UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

	This would bring the computer world full circle.  The original TECO
	was a powerful if somewhat terrifying line editor with such powerful
	macros that they were used (by Gosling?) to write a set of screen
	oriented editor macros---called Editor MACros, or EMACS, for short.

NO!  NOT Gosling.  Stallman (same as GNU EMACS) was the EMACS creator, under
ARPA/DOD sponsorship per Office of Naval Research contract N00014-75-C-0643.
I still have the original one that RMS handed me on tape back then, and I
have the updated one still running on my DEC-20 systems and his GNU EMACS on
all my UNIX boxes.

And the original (DEC) TECO was NOT powerful enough, but the MIT-TECO was.
MIT-TECO diverged greatly from the (stagnant) DEC TECO in the early '70s.

The only site I still see heavily using the (DEC) TECO nowadays is INTEL; they
do (did?) all their MIS reporting using TECO.  No foolin'!  Dian Wilde at INTEL
showed me her code about 10 years ago and I was just astonished.  Cryptic as
hell, but it worked.  :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]