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On 2/25/14, 9:20 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, George Mitchell wrote:
>
>> On 02/22/14 21:45, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, please can we get these ....
>>>>
>>>> Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great.
>>>> Set SYSTYPE to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with 
>>>> it, or
>>>> SYSV to get the other stuff.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Since we're going down DomainOS Memory Lane, does anyone else miss
>> transcript pads?                                         -- George
>
> I missed the transcript pad too.
>
> I also missed the DM editor and the ability to write DM scripts.
>
> And I miss the edit pad - the first time I was able to do
> a rectangular cut/paste/move.  And I loved the ability to place
> the cursor beyond the current end of a line and start typing
> (without clicking the mouse!).  I hate having to hold down
> the space bar, adding blanks, to get out to the column I want
> (suppose your coding conventions disallow tabs).
>
I miss teco