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In article <1215@kl-cs.UUCP>, jona...@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
> From article <1990Jan9....@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, by ro...@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum):
> > A few years ago I was working on a DEC System 10 which had an editor
> > called TECO (Text Editor and COrrector, as I recall).  Anyway, .....
> 
> I'll bite.
> Now here's a question for all you trivia merchants.  There was another
> editor of the DEC-10 I used called SOS.  It stood for 'Son Of Stopcat'
> I believe.  What or Who was 'Stopcat'?
> 
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I remember it was "Son of Stopgap".  Stopgap was supposed to have
been a line number oriented editor that was written in a hurry to
satisfy people who had been used to this type of editor on GE
systems (who DEC was trying to convert to PDP-10s).  Somebody did
some improvements on it and it became "Son".  Later on (~77?) DEC
finally made more improvements and SOS became a very respectable
editor.  You cound enter a line and move around in it with a
pointer almost like a screen editor, except all the TTYs had was
backspace and null.  Worked fine though, I used it a lot.

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