24 Nov
2010
24 Nov
'10
8:20 p.m.
From: Richard
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:46 PM
In article
<CC28F43ED4708D489ABCF68D06D7F556040A5CCC67 at 505DENALI.corp.vnw.com>,
Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> writes:
> Just typing TECO on the Toad-1 will get you
TECO-10, as will "R TECO" on
> the 2065. You need to run EMACS to get into an MIT TECO environment
> [...]
How do I run EMACS there?
After logging in, type "EMACS" at the @ prompt. Or "EDIT", as I have
the
system default editor set to EMACS instead of EDIT (AKA SOS), and the
default terminal type is VT100 instead of PRINTING.
However, something is not right with the F6 command. It's inserting the
value of the string pointer into the buffer, instead of the ASCII string.
I've got some TECO debugging to do! Whoopee!
NB: PDP-10 SIXBIT is easy--add octal 40 to each 6-bit group, beginning
from the left end of the word, and you have the
equivalent ASCII values.
I think once, briefly, we tried some visual editing
macros for TECO on
our RSTS/E implementation when we had a borrowed VT52. I don't recall
having much success with the effort though.
We had weird Beehive, LA-36 and Tek4010 terminals. We
didn't grok the
TECO macros well enough to understand how to modify them to support
the Beehive, so we didn't pursue it much further than our little
experiement. This would have been around 1979/1980.
I've only gotten into the -11 world seriously since coming to work here.
(I did have some experience with an -11 in a phonetics lab when I took a
class on production of speech in grad school, but Fortran is Fortran, and
I didn't have to do any editing.) I think it was running RT-11. I've
used RSX-20F (the variant for the front end on a KL-10), but have never yet
been on a RSTS system. I don't know what the TECO for that would be like.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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