Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
I grew up on punched cards. I wrote my own card-oriented editors. I
used ATS before XEDIT. I used FSE before XEDIT. I encountered SPF
before XEDIT. I wanted SPF when I was using XEDIT, but that didn't
blind me to the faults of SPF or to the useful features of XEDIT. And
BTW, the editor I'm using on my PC is[1] Tritus SPF, an ISPF clone.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#4 ISPF Limitations (was: Need for small
machines ... )
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#5 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF
requirements
I was first exposed to CMS edit in the spring '68 on 2741. I then wrote the
TTY/ASCII
terminal support for cp67. Then for OS/MVT release 18 system ... i
re-implemented
the CMS editor syntax (along with 2741 and TTY terminal support) from scratch
for HASP CRJE implementation (CMS editor implementation wasn't re-entrant ...
each running in its
own address space ... while HASP implementation required fully re-entrant
implementation).
Being somewhat biased, I considered it enormously better than subsequent TSO
release.
As far as I know, the HASP CRJE implementation never survived ... but the effort
didn't totally go to waste. Later I was able to use the experience of writing
re-entrant
code as part of pushing portions of CMS (including the editor) into "shared"
(r/o protected)
segments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#mmap
old communication reference (some amount of the following reference involved
moving stuff that had already been implemented in cp67 to vm370)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
shortly after the mid-80s, i got moved to a unix/emacs environment ... one of
the
things that i missed was the all command ... and was able to acquire one (two
decades
ago now) ... although the implementation that i currently use dates from '94.
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