On Friday 04 November 2005 6:18 am, Allen wrote:
PDP machines are actually quite useful as someone brought them up on here not long ago. they have to be big from the looks of them.
for editing, I use Vi and Emacs. Vi is way older than DOS ;)
Vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976.
EMACS was initially born in 1972 as an upgrade of TECO. Richard Stallman
added some macro features to it n 1974. But the first official EMACS was
done by RMS in 1976. All was done at the MIT AI lab.
Both predate DOS :-)
In the early 1970s, Burger King's point of sale system was a DEC PDP-8 with
4K 12-bit core memory, and did just about everything a POS is supposed to
do. The PDP-8 was no bigger than some of today's PCs.
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Jerry Feldman