[net.unix-wizards] What is the Rand editor?

jbn@wdl1.UUCP (01/28/85)

     The Rand Editor comes from the Rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, CA.
It can be obtained at low cost in source form from them.  It's quite old 
(we've been using it since 1978) and it has few features by VI or EMACS
standards, but it is extremely simple to use (if the function keys are
marked properly, all a new user needs to know to use it can be written
on the back of a business card.)
     Interactive Systems used to sell it as their ``Intext'' editor, and
offered it on a modified Perkin-Elmer Owl terminal downloaded with some
local processing code, but they no longer support that product.

mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) (01/31/85)

>      The Rand Editor comes from the Rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, CA.
> It can be obtained at low cost in source form from them.  It's quite old 
> (we've been using it since 1978) and it has few features by VI or EMACS
> standards, but it is extremely simple to use (if the function keys are
> marked properly, all a new user needs to know to use it can be written
> on the back of a business card.)
>      Interactive Systems used to sell it as their ``Intext'' editor, and
> offered it on a modified Perkin-Elmer Owl terminal downloaded with some
> local processing code, but they no longer support that product.

I used to use the editor from Interactive Systems. It is a great editor,
especially for cut and paste. (of course the owl was a suitable terminal
for this type of usage).

					Mark

Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR> (01/31/85)

ISC never supported any product.

-Ron

If I wanted a buggy version of UNIX, I would have gotten it from Bell.

isc.net@ISM780.UUCP (02/08/85)

    The INed (not "Intext") editor is available with full support from
    INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation of Santa Monica, CA., as are the
    INtext II terminal and the INterm emulator (which emulates the INtext
    II terminal on an IBM PC).  The INed editor is also the standard
    editor on PC/IX (which is a port of UNIX to the IBM PC, PC/XT, and
    PC AT), VM/IX (a port of UNIX to IBM's VM system), and on all other
    UNIX ports performed by INTERACTIVE.
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    INed, INterm, and INtext are trademarks of INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
    UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.

    --isc.net (ima!ism780!isc.net)   INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.