[TUHS] Yale and RAND editors

[Jonathan Gray]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 12:48:19PM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> John Levine wrote:
> > At Yale we had one called "e" that ran on our early bitmap terminals.
> 
> The GEM display system, in case anyone is curious.  Here's a description:
> https://engineering.yale.edu/application/files/3917/3714/8796/tr163.pdf
> 
> Unrelated to DR's GEM desktop.

https://engineering.yale.edu/application/files/2117/3714/8646/TR19_The_Yale_Editor_E_a_CRT-Based_Text_Editing_System_Preliminary_Version.pdf

references an IDA CDC6600 editor
Edgar T. Irons, Frans M. Djorup
A CRT Editing System
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/361237.361244

> 
> > It was based on Ned Irons' PDP-10 screen editor that ran on Omron glass ttys,
> > and was a cousin of INed which Walt Bilofsky wrote for Interactive Systems.
> 
> I'm curious if any listing or simliar may have survived for these?

Walter Bilofsky
The CRT Text Editor NED - Introduction and Reference Manual
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA049314.pdf

has a page on the history of associated editors.

tuhs Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377.tar.gz
2/rand/re/

/* file re.c - main program for RAND editor */

tuhs Applications/Shoppa_Tapes/usenix_80_delaware.tar.gz
delaware/maryland/rand/re/
delaware/maryland/rand/redoc/

/* file ned.c - main program for new RAND editor */
/*   Walt Bilofsky - 14 January 1977 */