[Simh] Editors you love/hate.

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Peter Lund <firefly at vax64.dk>
> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:54:08 +0200

> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:22 -0600, Brett Bump wrote:

>> Hmm...yank yank print, or was that yank yank "2" print if I wanted my LA36
>> to print me 2 lines (with TECO)?

> I don't think TECO or its descendants are particularly nice, either :(

As maintainer (and occasional developer) of the original TECO-based EMACS, I
take exception to that! ;-)

>>   But for platform compression, the
>> defaults for Windows has been (zip), for Apples (originally pac), for the
>> Amiga it was (lhz or lha), original "Unix" was (compress .Z) and for the
>> open source *nix variants, (gunzip, or bzip2).

> I thought most Macs used StuffIt back in the day?

"Back in the day"?  Still do, as far as I can tell.  In the 23+ years I've been
using Macs, I've seen DL, HEX, HCX, HQX (later misused by BinHex 5 as well) for
encoding, and PackIt and StuffIt for archiving (as well as one I'm forgetting
earlier than PackIt with a .cpt extension--or was that "compressed PackIt"?).
I think .pac is something Apple tried out, but it never gained much ground with
the general populace.

                                                                Rich Alderson