On May 18, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
Of course, the best is ed
The competition to "ed" was TECO and SOS, and not even the real TECO, and there was NO WAY you could run any kind of real Emacs on a PDP-11 (what did RMS care? If you don't have 36 bits you're not playing with a full DEC).
I implemented "ed" on RSX-11 in Fortran because SOS was so painful, and showed it to my boss, and he thought I was some kind of god... he hated SOS too.
