[kwlug-disc] MKS

[Doug Moen]

And I just installed Qed.
https://github.com/phonologus/QED

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
> Since we are reminiscing about the good old days,
> one of the "text based realities" I experienced while working at MKS
> was using the Qed text editor (written by David Tilbrook, Rob Pike and 
> others at U of T).
> Tilbrook was working there at the time.
>
> This Qed had a family resemblance to the FRED text editor at University 
> of Waterloo (FRED ran on the Honeywell in the Math department during 
> the 1980's when I was there). In other words, it was a command line 
> text editor, related to Unix `ed` but much more powerful, with 
> multi-file editing and a built in programming language. It was pretty 
> cool, and I could use some powerful tricks that aren't available to me 
> in Vi AFAIK, but it wasn't open source and I lost access to it after I 
> left MKS.
>
> Doug.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 7:06 PM, Steve Izma wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 06:36:13PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] MKS
>>> 
>>> Oh my gosh, Steve, I need to be whipped, Yes, MKS! Though I
>>> could have sworn you were doing some work with WLU at the time?
>>
>> Yes, I was in two places at once[1]. In fact in late 1986 I held
>> down three jobs, since I returned to Dumont Press Graphix (a
>> typesetting co-op) to help wind it down (I had helped start it up
>> in 1971 and worked there until 1984). I left MKS at the end of
>> 1988 (although I still attended their parties) and continued with
>> WLU Press for another 27 years.
>>
>>> Lord, I miss those simpler days of text-based realities and
>>> 3/$1 hots dogs at that 7/11  next door to my old office:-)
>>
>> I can't say I miss cheap hot dogs, but I continue to experience
>> the text-based reality of vi and ksh every day, without regret.
>> Except maybe for the fact that fewer and fewer people can even
>> imagine those experiences, making it difficult to explain.
>>
>> 	-- Steve
>>
>> Footnotes:
>> [1] "How can you be in two places at once when you're really
>> nowhere at all?", a song by Firesign Theatre.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve Izma
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>>        from Plato to Darwin*, 1996
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