Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!esunix!bpendlet From: bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: where to do line editing? Message-ID: <939@esunix.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 15:01:42 GMT References: <623@root44.co.uk> Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah Lines: 27 In article <1188@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >How IBM mainframe of you. How about putting file editing in the terminal >as well? Anybody remember the UTS400, or UTS4010 terminals for the UNIVAC 1100 series mainframes? They had all sorts of local editing features. Including local files, local printing, on the 4010 a local text editor, and if that wasn't enough you could program them in UTS-Cobol. Why you could declare the screen as a 24x80 array of characters, open the host as a record oriented file and do anything you wanted with characters coming from the keyboard. Now days my terminal is a Sun 3/50 running SunOs 3.4 and X windows. Ile gives me local input line editing, GNU emacs gives me local text editing, NFS lets me open and access files on the host computer, and I can program it in C. Of course some people call it a workstation. Another turn on the wheel of incarnation. Bob P. -- Bob Pendleton @ Evans & Sutherland UUCP Address: {decvax,ucbvax,allegra}!decwrl!esunix!bpendlet Alternate: utah-cs!esunix!bpendlet I am solely responsible for what I say.