[TUHS] Who used *ROFF?

[Bakul Shah]

On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:21:22 +1000 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall writes:
> On Sat, 12 May 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point.
> 
> I boss I used to work for insisted that we all learn "ed", because one day 
> it might be the only editor available to you; well, one day he was right, 
> when /usr on a client's box got creamed after a head crash...

Your boss must've been an optimist.

I once had to rescue a system where the root dir block was
lost.  No ed.  Luckily our bootrom had commands for peek/poke
& disk block IO.  The v7 filesystem layout was simple enough
and I remembered enough of it that I was able to patch it
enough to bring it up and run fsck.