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>From article <16...@cc.usu.edu>, by SL...@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie):
> In article <2931@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
>>          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.

So did I.  I also liked the two level backup feature.  If I edited
a file, a copy became the 'Q' backup, and the 'Q' backup became the
'Z' backup.

> About the ONLY thing I liked about SOS was that the line editing
> commands were very similar (read: a clone) of the old TRS-80 Level II
> BASIC editing commands. Since I had hacked a TRS-80 extensively before
> going to college, I felt right at home with SOS.

SOS predates the Trash-80 by a long way.  Microsoft developed a line
editor in their BASIC.  I assume that this is where the TRS-80 got
its one from.  Yes, it did bear a distinct similarity.

> Of course, it wasn't long afterwards that I discovered real editors like
> EDT and TECO.

Hmmm, not met vi or emacs yet?  Boy have you got a surprise comming.

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