30 Sep
2016
30 Sep
'16
1:16 a.m.
On 30/09/16 08:29, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 5:00:39 PM AEST Andrew Pam wrote:
I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't.
Grin, I think I missed that one, instead having to use FRED on a Honeywell L66 running GCOS-3 (from memory). That was a pure line editor, because the L66 only had a line input mode as there was a front end system between you and the main machine that only passed on input/output when hit hit enter. :-)
Um, late 60's, some sed-like variant. It really was a _stream_ editor - you prepared a paper tape of edit commands and ran it against the original file paper tape to create the new file on paper tape. The output tape ran at 400 chars/sec, the input was optically read at faster than that.