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From: ERIC@UOFT02.BITNET (Eric)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Demise of EDT with VMS V5.0?
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Date: 15 Feb 88 19:23:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  your letter rec'd 10-FEB-1988 08:23

From:   IN%"INFO-VAX@KL.SRI.COM" 10-FEB-1988 08:23
To:     Eric Rostetter <ERIC@UOFT02>
Subj:   RE: Demise of EDT with VMS V5.0?

> I was told by someone that they read in a magazine that DEC would not be
> distributing the EDT editor with VMS v5.0.  Can anybody tell me if this is
> true or not?

>> I believe that this is untrue (I can't be certain since there is nothing
>> in my notes from the Fall '87 DECUS Symposium) and that what Digital
>> really said in Anaheim is that there will be no more improvements for
>> EDT with VMS V5.0, that it is being frozen in its current state.

My guess to this is that until DEC gets EVE/LSE/TPU working without error and
on both the PDP's as well as VAX's, they can't afford to stop supporting ETD.
From what I have heard, EDT will continue to be distributed but the EDTSECINI
source file for TPU will not be distributed with VMS 5.0 or later.  This last
bit of info is from  (among other places)  the February issue of the DEC Pro-
fessional (page 114).  One reason for this is that the new version of EVE  is
supposed to support the EDT keypad...  Well, we'll have to wait and see...

Those are my two cents worth on the subject... :)

Eric Rostetter
Eric @ uoft02.bitnet