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From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Unix vs. Mainframe editors
Message-ID: <22860@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 03:26:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.210035.2232@wrkgrp.COM> <1991Mar20.140959.2939@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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In article <1991Mar20.140959.2939@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> bnrmtl!lewis@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu writes:
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>And I, for one, have always liked XEDIT and think it's certainly a very
>powerful editor (it can sort a file much faster that sort(1) on a Sparc).

HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!
 
This comment is completely out of context!!! (not just in this reprint
but in the original posting...) 
 
I, too, am a mainframe editor bigot, although ISPF was my first preference
with XEDIT a very close second, since I had to use both TSO and VM in
my previous life and ISPF was available in BOTH environments (uhoh, I
can hear it now, this is the same reason that the vi bigots give for
using vi... it is available on ALL unix systems)... 
 
Anyway, I want to know what you are saying here... That XEDIT (running
on a mainframe, say a 3090 or something along that order) can sort
faster than a Sparc???? I WOULD HOPE SO!!!!  Ignoring all the MipsHype
that suggests a "15Mips" Sparcstation 1+ might be able to outcompute
a "3Mips" 3033 (I sincerely doubt it... mips != mips in most cases),
anyway, ignoring all that hype, a mainframe should run circles around
a Sparc... So what does that prove???
 
On the other hand, are you comparing an XEDIT that runs on the Sparc
(better yet, with a REXX that goes with it?)   If so, please let me
know where I can get one too... I think I may have found heaven!
 
Jon