Difference between revisions of "TVEDIT"

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TVEDIT was the first in a family of full-screen text editor. It was written by Brian Tolliver for the Odin time-sharing on the Stanford PDP-1.

Offspring, all running on the PDP-10, include:

TVEdit for the IMSSS TENEX system, displaying on Imlac PDS-1 computers. Written by John Prebus.
TV-Edit at IMSSS and SUMEX-AIM, displaying on TEC 400 and Datamedia 2500 video terminals, by Pentti Kanerva.
TV for SAIL III and Data Disc displays, by Dan Swinehart.
E for Data Disc displays, by Fred Wright, Brian Harvey, Arthur Samuel, Martin Frost, et al.

The full-screen editing features of E was an influence on Richard Stallman and the EMACS editor.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote his book Gödel, Escher, Bach using TVEdit on the IMSSS Imlacs in Ventura Hall.

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 Offspring, all running on the [[PDP-10]], include:
-* TVEDIT for the [[IMSSS]] [[TENEX]] system, displaying on [[Imlac PDS-1]] computers.  Written by John Prebus.
+* TVEdit for the [[IMSSS]] [[TENEX]] system, displaying on [[Imlac PDS-1]] computers.  Written by John Prebus.
 * TV-Edit at IMSSS and SUMEX-AIM, displaying on TEC 400 and Datamedia 2500 [[video terminal]]s, by Pentti Kanerva.
 * TV for [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] [[Information International Inc|III]] and [[Data Disc]] displays, by Dan Swinehart.
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 The full-screen editing features of E was an influence on Richard Stallman and the [[Emacs editors|EMACS]] editor.
+Douglas Hofstadter wrote his book ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'' using TVEdit on the IMSSS Imlacs in Ventura Hall.
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