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FINE Is Not EMACS
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FINE Is Not EMACS

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FINE (FINE Is Not EMACS) text editor for TOPS-10, written by Mike

Kazar at C-MU in BLISS-10 in the early 1980's.



Mike recently gave me permission to distribute FINE sources.

Phil Budne 7/17/2002

[email protected]



Note; All files restored from backup saveset images read by backup10.

Almost all files have original dates (exceptions noted below);



================ C-MU files



341,471/cmuold	2/9/80

	version directly from CMU 2/80;

	Start of save set FROMCMUA on MTA000 

	System CMU10A 8.3/DEC 6.02A-VM TOPS-10 monitor 602A(14404) APR#1080

	1600 BPI 9 track  9-Feb-80 00:03:07 BACKUP 2(216)-5 tape format 1



solomon.foo	7/27/80

	ftp'ed from CMU by Jon Solomon at Rutgers 27-Jul-80 16:04:55

	saveset written by TOPS-20 DUMPER in "interchange" format;

		no dates on files.



================ University of New Orleans



301,273/uno	8/21/80

	see notes.uno dated Aug 21 1980 based on CMU version of 29-Jul-80

	Files from Jim (Nothead) Thomas at University of New Orleans



================ Stevens Tech files



301,273/f3	7/27/80

301,273/f4	8/25/80

301,273/me3	8/29/80

301,273/me3b	1/21/81 -- first version with terminal routines from MIT TECO

Started keeping revision history and edit number (in versn.mac) 2/81

301,273/me4	8/27/81 v1B(1057)-7

301,273/f	11/1/81	v1B(1060)-7

	intermediate versions for my endlessly mangled version at Stevens Tech

	(301,273/f is final Stevens version? 11/1/81 -- w/ a fix from AHM@DEC!



================ DEC Marlborough



31,5666/301273/f 12/13/81 v1B(1100)-7

	Alan Martin (AHM)'s version at DEC Marlboro

	(branched from above after may 1981)

	Final edit by me!



31,5732/f	7/25/83	v1C(1130)-5

	My seperate version at DEC Marlboro



My observations;



How hard it was to get anything done in those days.  Even Barb admits

it was easier to write user programs on TOPS-20!  I only attempted a

few personal projects on TOPS-10 after getting to DEC and having a

choice.  But it was a tough row to hoe, I was always writing daemons

of one sort or another, but the guardians of KL1026 saw anything

running in user mode as a waste of cycles (Alan and I were clearly

third class citizens*, working on the FORTRAN-10/20 compiler (despite

the fact that it was probably the piece of DEC S/W that people bought

systems to run (The best BASIC comming from U Penn Medical School).



Second class citizenship was probably CUSP maintainers -- tools

(MACRO and LINK) used by real men to make real code (the monitor).



How much time we all spent reformatting code.



How amazing that we lived without using source control!



What an angry young man I was!  The comments are well, positively

nasty at times!  And I don't think I saw any about Alan's bosses at

the Stevens Computer Center, who were working on TECO (what ended up

as TECO v200) -- I remember they stole FINE sources (mounted a private

pack to read the code) to figure out how it figured out how to do

screen updates using line insert/delete.  Then they did a one-up, and

used the same algorithms for character insert/delete as well (all

coded in MACRO, as real men were wont to). The screen updates were

enough to give you montion sickness, I remember GNU EMACS had a

similar effect on me when I first used it on slow lines...



It seems we were all working on editors -- my freshman year roomate

Rich Braun had wrote his own from scratch....