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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <22811@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 88 03:38:12 GMT
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In article <4435@teemc.UUCP> wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne) writes:
+---------------
| 	Does anyone know if screen has been ported to any maches other than
| Cromemco and Fortune?  This has to be one of the world's simplest editors to
| teach someone.  I ask primarily for nostalgic reasons but it might solve
| other people's problems also.
+---------------

"Screen" was certainly easy to use! Secretaries and field service
guys could use it with just a few minutes practice. The service
people in particular liked to carry floppies with "screen" around
with them on calls, so they'd always have access to an editor they
could use. You didn't have to remember very much, as there was
a command_prompt line at the top that told you what you could do
at any point.

It was written by Bob Glossman when he was at Fortune Systems,
based on the ideas but not the code of the version of "screen"
he wrote at Cromemco. That, in turn, was based on the look/feel
of the UCSD Pascal editor.

Bob is currently V.P.Engineering at Bell Technologies. You might
ask him whatever happened to "screen".


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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