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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Half Duplex Editor
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Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 21:36:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 13 21:36:20 1987
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As quoted from <8707091403.AA21054@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> by jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson):
+---------------
| >> > From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
| >> > I wonder if anyone has ever made an intensely interactive application
| >> > like emacs work over a half-duplex line!
| >> not as powerful as Emacs (but not that far away either) and
| >> considering it was half-duplex and connected to an Amdahl mainframe,
| >> it was pretty impressive.
| Oops!  I forgot all about the class of editors used all the time on
| IBM 3270 family terminals.  These are half-duplex devices with local
+---------------

IBM XEDIT (editor for VM/CMS) always struck me as being a sort of half-duplex
Emacs.  (I will, however, use full-duplex Emacs if available in preference
to half-duplex XEDIT.)
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