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A full screen editor, called '''O26''' (after the IBM model 026 key punch, with the first character made alphabetic due to operating system restrictions), could be run on the [[CDC 6000]] operator console. This text editor appeared in 1966 - years before full screen editing was available on other systems.
A full screen editor, called '''O26''' (after the IBM model 026 key punch,
with the first character made alphabetic due to operating system restrictions),
could be run on the [[CDC 6000]] operator console.
It was written in 1967
by Edgar T. Irons and Franz M. Djorup at the Institute of Defense Analysis to run on a CDC 6600.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www2.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~vmi/chronologie/main.htm
|title=Chronology of Computing
|author=David Singmaster
|date=January 6, 2000
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-j710b-bm_tops20_v41_tools/01/tools/sed/sed.doc.html
|title=SED: A CRT Editor for TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
|author=A. Christopher Hall
|date=June 1982
}}</ref>

==References==
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Revision as of 20:44, 11 September 2007

A full screen editor, called O26 (after the IBM model 026 key punch, with the first character made alphabetic due to operating system restrictions), could be run on the CDC 6000 operator console. It was written in 1967 by Edgar T. Irons and Franz M. Djorup at the Institute of Defense Analysis to run on a CDC 6600.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ David Singmaster (January 6, 2000). "Chronology of Computing".
  2. ^ A. Christopher Hall (June 1982). "SED: A CRT Editor for TOPS-10 and TOPS-20".