🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #272

Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)

#272
From: D89.JOHNNY... Johnny Billquist
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 06:51
39 lines
1928 bytes
> (I thought nobody used it anymore!)

Whoa! Hold it. TECO is very much alive, as far as I know.
I runs one of these beautiful pdp8:s at home, and I wish
everybody could get a chance to use that machine, it is
really something different from todays programming, and
as far as I'm concerned, the old machines are much more
enjoyable, and "hackier".
If anybody is interested, I have a small EMACS macro written
in TECO-8 V7 (OS/8 TECO is (was) the only TECO officially
supported by DEC).

Also, speaking of hidden messages, I can add this one.

At the end of the pdp8 era at dec (around '79) they
released a macro assembler, called MACREL, since it
was MACRO, and generated relocatable code, which is
a bit different on a pdp8 compared to a pdp11 or such
modern designs.
However, when you compiled a file, you could give
a switch, to get block letters at the head of the listing,
and also (undocumented) a nice picture...
As I'm running through my eight right now, I'll try to
insert it... (hold on)


             .  *  *  .            .
        . '              *       .
      *     O               * . *  *
    *                              .
     .                V2C 
      * ---'    )           . * .  *
        *      )         .       *
           ' *  .  .  *            *


Pretty nice, if I may say so...


Technical Details
Message-ID: <12551791706015@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!bmc!kuling!aida.csd.uu.se!d89.johnny-billquist
References: <6877@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec15.041951.8081@world.std.com> <34112@mirror.UUCP>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!bmc!kuling!aida.csd.uu.se!d89.johnny-billquist
From: D89.JOHNNY...@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Johnny Billquist)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: TECO (was Re: spacewar and TECO)
Keywords: teco
Message-ID: <12551791706015@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE>
Date: 21 Dec 89 06:51:07 GMT
References: <6877@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1989Dec15.041951.8081@world.std.com> <34112@mirror.UUCP>
Sender: news@kuling.UUCP
Lines: 39
Posted: Thu Dec 21 07:51:07 1989
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit