[COFF] editor wars

[Clem Cole]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

>
> EMACS ran on ITS, TOPS-20, and TENEX, but not TOPS-10.  TOPS-10 had
> Emacs-likes FINE and AMIS.
>
Thanks -- you're right.  FINE was what we had on the PDP-10s, not pure
EMACS, which we did not get until we started running TOPS-20.   As I said,
i used it for such a short time and never really mastered it but the time I
switched to UNIX.   Which set me on a path to ex/vi and by the time Gosling
EMACS was available, I had never went back as ex/vi was getting the job
done and ran on both PDP-11s and Vaxen.  It was just not worth re-learning
it as vi was by the, everywhere from MS-DOS to the Cray 1 and EMACS wasn't.
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