[clue-talk] survey results

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:04:24 -0600 (MDT)
Bruce Ediger wrote:

> > Oh, it probably was the VE. Uh, 1985-ish? I actually got very good at
> > writing COBOL very quickly in their line editor. (Don't snicker, I
> > wrote
> 
> I think they had 2, at least at the site I worked: "SENATOR" and
> "XEDIT". Probably not the "XEDIT" of IBM fame, though.
> 
> I don't think NOS/VE came out until 1991 or so - in '86, it was nearly
> all NOS, with a few remaining NOS/BE and KRONOS sites.

I shudder to think it got worse.

Yes, XEDIT.

> Still, NOS was quite horrible.  Even MS-DOS was better.

Aw, c'mon. It wasn't _that_ bad. :)

jed