dan (02/17/83)
I know this topic has been in the minds of many, but I don't know what the conclusions have been. I need a version of EX/VI to run on non-I&D PDP-11's. I know that EX/VI could run overlaid on such a machine. Is the performance exceptable ? (How about for, say, four users ?) I know that EX version 1.1 also will fit; but it seems considerably more primitive and the visual mode looked quite underdeveloped. I have successfully gotten Warren Montgomery's EMACS to run comfortably on an 11/23, moving buffers into the stack segment, etc. But EMACS's screen handling seems much less intelligent and not suitable for lower speed terminals (any comments ?) Before I attempt to hack up EX 2.0, has anybody else done it ? Does anybody have any definitive comments as to the feasibility ? Does EX/VI overlaid work just fine ? Thanks, Dan Ts'o ...decvax!cca!ima!n44a!dan