| ▲ | desmondmonster 6 days ago | |
What editor did they use to write this code? I think this predated vi, and folks were probably using older tools they were familiar with. ed? How much of the source code could they see at once? Was there such thing as a "full screen editor"? If anyone can illuminate the development environment/workflow from the late 1970s I'd love to hear about it. | ||
| ▲ | coldpie 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
I don't know my history well enough to answer your question, but you can see one approach to the 1970s computing experience in this excellent video series about the Altair 8800 by deramp5113 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3mwSROoJ4KLWM8KwK0c... There were fullscreen editors. You can see one with a 1978 copyright date at about 14:45 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQNHg1XuFR4 | ||
| ▲ | kabdib 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
in 1978, emacs was a possibility but i'm gonna guess SOS or TECO, if they were running a bog standard PDP-10 OS from DEC | ||