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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <243@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 19:39:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 19:39:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Mar-87 23:55:30 EST
References: <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU> <3320008@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <3320008@hpsrlc.HP.COM> darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:
>In article <855@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
>(Jim "Jack" Frost) writes:
>
>> As for memory resident software, who cares?  The point being:  with a
>> multitasking operating system, you no longer need resident software.
>> In BSD UNIX, you can just suspend the job you're working on and run
>> someting else.  If you want to go back to the first thing, you can
>
>I think you're missing the point.  One of the *BIG* uses of memory
>resident software, aside from notepads, calendars, etc. (which can be
>handled in a multitasking OS), is for programs like keyboard macro
>programs and programs like CED.  I haven't seen any generic keyboard
>macro programs for UNIX (one which works in most, if not all,
>programs), and I've only seen VAX VMS with a CED-like feature.
>
>For those of you who don't know, CED is a memory resident program
>that gives the PC an alias and keyboard stack features.  If you want
>to execute/edit a previous command, you simply use the up/down arrow keys to
>dynamically display the command and use the left/right arrow keys
>and the insert/delete keys to edit.  The alias feature is just that:
>you can define aliases consisting of one or more commands.

Funny, so far, I have had CED work at the DOS level...  And well, I know
that being able to use the arrow keys to edit my command line is just soooo
Awsome, but some how I just keep wishing I had a csh for my PC clone.  But
I guess it is really just me that is brain dammaged, not my PC, and DOS.
Well I guess it is nice to hear that I didn't spend so much money on a
machine that is as brain dammaged as I have always considered it, but I
would still like to run my compiles while reading the news...  But I guess
that is why we have newspapers now hey???  :-)

                      S. John Banner

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PS.  I do like my PC, and I don't want to give it up, I would just like
to see it running a real OS.