RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Philip White pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

Don’t know exactly. It would have been logical to migrate it to the more advanced DEC system, the VAX. Since then, if it was moved to another hardware platform, it would have needed to be cross-compiled to run on it.
 


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Phil,



Thank you for this precision. I started my career as a lexicographer on

an IBM mainframe at a big publishing house. And EBCDIC was alive and

well in the early 1980's there. Do you happen to know how the Atex

system was later developed? I gather Atex has been run on mainframes up

till this day. (E.g.

)



Best regards,



Kari Eveli

LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)

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> To answer your original question, the Atex editor was actually a

> stand-alone operating system. It was written on and for the DEC PDP-11

> family which (thankfully) used the ASCII character set.

>

> The PDP-11 was a very advanced computer for its day. It had a very

> logical and versatile instruction set and a great CPU. I loved writing

> code for it.

>