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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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:57:03 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite
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.
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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.
