3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
11:14 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane
Healy
Sent: 03 December 2014 04:37
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: is there any word processing software for the pdp11?
On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org> wrote:
boring
I used Multics Emacs when I was given the project
of putting the
University of Chicago on an MMDF-based phone network sponsored by
EDUCOM and
called EDUnet.
> MIT-MULTICS was the hub for the system, so I had an account there and
> was very happy to find my favorite editor available. That was
> 1983-84, after which I moved to Stanford. The rest, as they say, is old stuff^W^W^Whistory.
If it ran on Multics, I find myself wondering if it ran on GCOS-8.
Zane
I doubt it. GCOS-8 was weird and didn't have the same terminal paradigms as
MULTICS. From what I remember it was a line/block mode terminal interface
with local editing done in the GERTS or whatever FEP you were using. (I know
it wasn't GERTS for GCOS8 but you know what I mean...)
Dave Wade
G4UGM