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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
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Subject: Re: Self-modifying code -- TECO lives
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Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 22:21:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 10 22:21:07 1984
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TECO is alive and well, thank you.  It runs compatibly on Vax/VMS,
RSTS/E, RSX-11M, RT11.  You can move macros from one system to another
without great difficulty.  In fact, the distribution kits of several
DEC operating systems include video-display editors (distributed in
well-commented source, as well as tightly packed commentless code).

One of the most interesting TECO macros was the one distributed as
a comment in the monitor sources of early versions of RT11.  To add
a keyboard monitor command, you located the macro, moved it to
a q register and executed it.  It took the command name and updated
all the appropriate tables.

Martin Minow
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