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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2022, at 21:44, Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" class="">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">And I just installed Qed.<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/phonologus/QED" class="">https://github.com/phonologus/QED</a><br class=""><br class="">On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Doug Moen wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Since we are reminiscing about the good old days,<br class="">one of the "text based realities" I experienced while working at MKS<br class="">was using the Qed text editor (written by David Tilbrook, Rob Pike and <br class="">others at U of T).<br class="">Tilbrook was working there at the time.<br class=""><br class="">This Qed had a family resemblance to the FRED text editor at University <br class="">of Waterloo (FRED ran on the Honeywell in the Math department during <br class="">the 1980's when I was there). In other words, it was a command line <br class="">text editor, related to Unix `ed` but much more powerful, with <br class="">multi-file editing and a built in programming language. It was pretty <br class="">cool, and I could use some powerful tricks that aren't available to me <br class="">in Vi AFAIK, but it wasn't open source and I lost access to it after I <br class="">left MKS.<br class=""><br class="">Doug.<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 7:06 PM, Steve Izma wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 06:36:13PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] MKS<br class=""><br class="">Oh my gosh, Steve, I need to be whipped, Yes, MKS! Though I<br class="">could have sworn you were doing some work with WLU at the time?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes, I was in two places at once[1]. In fact in late 1986 I held<br class="">down three jobs, since I returned to Dumont Press Graphix (a<br class="">typesetting co-op) to help wind it down (I had helped start it up<br class="">in 1971 and worked there until 1984). I left MKS at the end of<br class="">1988 (although I still attended their parties) and continued with<br class="">WLU Press for another 27 years.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Lord, I miss those simpler days of text-based realities and<br class="">3/$1 hots dogs at that 7/11 next door to my old office:-)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I can't say I miss cheap hot dogs, but I continue to experience<br class="">the text-based reality of vi and ksh every day, without regret.<br class="">Except maybe for the fact that fewer and fewer people can even<br class="">imagine those experiences, making it difficult to explain.<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-- Steve<br class=""><br class="">Footnotes:<br class="">[1] "How can you be in two places at once when you're really<br class="">nowhere at all?", a song by Firesign Theatre.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Steve Izma<br class="">-<br class="">Home: 35 Locust St., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2H 1W6<br class="">E-mail: sizma@golden.net phone: 519-745-1313<br class="">cell (text only; not frequently checked): 519-998-2684<br class=""><br class="">==<br class="">The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and<br class="">therefore never scrutinize or question.<br class=""> -- Stephen Jay Gould, *Full House: The Spread of Excellence<br class=""> from Plato to Darwin*, 1996<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">kwlug-disc mailing list<br class="">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br class="">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">kwlug-disc mailing list<br class="">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br class="">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">kwlug-disc mailing list<br class="">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br class="">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>