James Knott said the following on 03/01/2013 10:20 AM:

Hans Witvliet wrote:

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But, even in those days there were people who could create decent editors, like the LSE from Digital...

I used to use an editor on a VAX 11/780, but I don't recall what it was called. What impressed me was, on one occasion, the computer crashed, then after it was brought back up, the editor replayed everything I had done to create the document.

Yes, I recall that. At one point I had to take some source and do a quick patch on a production machine rather than working in the pig-pen. Sitting nest to the VAX I heard the disk 'hit' with every character I typed. I know VI has/had an option for crash recovery but its not character-by-character. What made me wonder ... back in the pig-pen there were 40+ people hammering away with the editor, coding and writing docco or test data or something. That must be hell on disk bandwidth is the editor was flushing to disk key-stroke by keystroke for all of them. How could the machine get any other useful work done? -- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. . . . Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. -- Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org