> VTedit At Waikato university a student, Ivan Piacun, wrote "vted", also a set of macros for TECO, on the PDP-11/70. I would say it was what most people used

> VTedit At Waikato university a student, Ivan Piacun, wrote "vted", also a set of macros for TECO, on the PDP-11/70. I would say it was what most people used until the switch to VAX. I tracked Ivan down on LinkedIn a few months ago. He says when he wrote "vted" he had absolutely no knowledge of other similar efforts, or of either emacs or vi, both of which existed (on the other side of the world) a couple of years earlier. Everyone worked in a silo in those days. You might eventually see something in BYTE (though it focussed on microcomputers) or Dr Dobbs (ditto) or Wireless World. Or something might make it ono a DECUS tape. But mostly you were just completely isolated if you lived on an island in the South Pacific Ocean, as we did. I was happy with EDT, never got to like TPU's "Eve", though I didn't use it for long because I graduated ... ... graduated to a company that used DG MV10000 with AOS/VS, which had an even worse clone of TECO called SPEED. There must have been a better editor, though I think still a line editor, but I have absolutely no memory of what it was called or how it worked!! I remember having to use SPEED for some things, but not most of the time. Maybe on very large files. I was writing programs in PL/I and also Postscript on that machine. I hooked the brand new Apple Laserwriter to the MV10000, something both DG and the Apple dealer said was impossible, and used it, at first, mostly to replace an HP pen plotter to make diagrams and graphs to physically paste into gaps left in hard copy "camera ready" output from an IBM DisplayWriter word processing system.