From: trwacs!erwin@uunet.uu.net (Harry Erwin)
Subject: Re: INFO-ADA Digest V91 #174
Date: 8 Jul 91 11:49:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <320@trwacs.UUCP> (raw)
UN025523@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU ("James Burnell, WVU Comp/Ele Engr") writes:
>INFO-ADA-REQUEST@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU( 21-JU writes:
>>TECO was invented at MIT back in the 60's. I doubt you could
>>find a running TECO any more, but it was widely available (from
>>DECUS) on DEC PDP series machines as recently as 1980 at least.
>>The original EMACS was written in TECO; in fact, the name stands
>>for Editing MACroS, since EMACS was just a set of TECO macros
>>for keeping the screen continuously updated. If you remember
>>TECO, you're a Pretty Old Programmer (Not Real Old, but Pretty
>>Old). Or maybe you just started young ... ;-)
Both TECO and EMACS were in use at Norden Systems as late as
1987. I remember it well, being involved in maintaining it.
I believe they are still available (and maybe even still
maintained) at MIT.
--
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
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1991-07-12 0:13 INFO-ADA Digest V91 #174 Gary Barnes
1991-06-21 20:59 James Burnell, WVU Comp/Ele Engr
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