Re: TECO on Itanium...

From: Alex Daniels (AlexNOSPAMTHANKSDaniels_at_themail.co.uk)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:42:38 +0100

"Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> wrote in message
news:NDEMLKKEBOIFBMJLCECIAEGKDFAA.tom@kednos.com...
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Sture [mailto:nospam@sture.homeip.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:04 AM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: TECO on Itanium...
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> Tom Linden wrote:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David B Sneddon [mailto:dbsneddon@bigpond.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 7:34 AM
> > To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> > Subject: Re: TECO on Itanium...
> >
> >
> > VAXman-@SendSpamHere.ORG was overheard to say:
> >> In article <2hvi06Fh7l51U1@uni-berlin.de>, Tim E Sneddon
> >> <tesneddon@bigpond.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>Does any one know if there will be TECO on VMS I64? My employer
> >>>received their first Itanium last week with VMS V8.1, but it
> >>>appears to be missing TECO :-(
> >>>
> >>>Larry K., have you heard anything?
> >>
> >>
> >> Had a brief discussion with Andy Goldstein at the Ambassador
roundhouse
> >> last week and TECO came up in the midst of the conversation. You
might
> >> need to wait for a point release or two before you see it, if
> you see it
> >> at all.
> >>
> >> What? What is a system without TECO?
> >
> > Were there not some lisp packages for emacs to mimic TECO? Of course,
> > if so, then the next question would be about the avaialbility of
emacs.
> >
>
> This might be relevant to the question of emacs availablity:
>
>
>
http://sunsite.tus.ac.jp/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/teco/d
> oc/tech.txt
>
> Interesting. I believe the first version that Stallman wrote was in PL/I
> under
> Multics as was the Primos version written by Bob Frankston, during the mid
> 70's

I would guess the Primos version would more likely have been PLP, which is
not quite PL/I, albeit most similar. Unfortunately my Primos source code
tapes are long since gone.

Alex

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