PDP-7s , actually. I remember DEC minicomputers (7s, 8s, 10s, 11s, VAX, RSX11M, RSTS/E, RT-11) with great affection. I used to moonlight in the early 1980s with another guy from FIT to setup DEC systems at night. It was great fun. At Dictaphone, we bought two PDP-1132s . Upon delivery, one of them fell headlong off of the delivery truck. Smash. Ever seen a grown software engineer cry? Those were good days.
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On Sep 19, 2024, at 22:11, Dave McGuire via groups.io <mcguire@...> wrote:
?On 9/19/24 21:59, Harvey White wrote:
With the Linux heritage, IIRC.
Oh good heavens no; emacs is way older than that, and it did not originate in the UNIX world. It dates back to the mid-1970s, on DEC PDP-10s.
It has been ported to, or implemented on, every interactive OS on every platform that I can think of, including every functional implementation of UNIX.
I did (and do) a lot of IDEs, unlike people who have a separate editor, separate compiler, and a makefile (I did something like that on a DG Nova computer, it's what the company had.)
I don't use IDEs as most people think of them. But when developing software (mostly firmware), I never have to leave the emacs window(s). Editing, compiling, target programming. That by definition is an "IDE", but it's not what most people think of when they say "IDE".
So I know of it, but never used it in its native form. Perhaps some other editors were derived from it, but what I did? Not that I'd know of.
You'd know. ;) Dozens of editors were derived from it, some free, some commercial. But you'd definitely know.
-Dave
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