
On 04/24/2018 09:54 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
VAX/VMS was a DEC operating system. I used to work with it on DEC VAX 11/780 systems.
Whatever she was using for line by line editing of reports. She was a fast modal operator and hers was a local cache problem. She was also a very serious employee. I wouldn't even look over her shoulder to see what she was doing at the time. Her words not mine.
IBM has VM (VM/CMS), which I used when I worked at IBM. One difference with IBMs user interface was it was screen based, rather than lines in other OS. You still often see it in businesses (I saw it in Lowes the other day), where the entire screen is processed at once. The only other place I've seen screens used, other than web sites, was on the old telegram system at CNCP. However, that system was based on a Data General Nova 800 and used on dumb terminals (made by VST) that used delay line memory.