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Before the PC, there were mini-computers like the IBM System 34, System 36, System 38 and AS-400, the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 and VAX line, and the Hewlett-Packard 3000 series. Many of these machines are still in use, and text editors exist for them.

Minicomputer Editor Family

Data General:

[About Data General]

SAID - SED emulator for AIX, DG-UX, HP-UX Linux, and Solaris, intended for folks migrating from DG systems
SED - Editor supplied with Data General mini computers running AOS
SPEED - Editor for Data General mini computers running AOS

Digital Equipment Corporation:

[About Digital Equipment Corporation]

ADAM - Extended version of EVE
EDIT PDP-8 - Line editor on DEC PDP-8 systems
EDT - the predecessor to TPU (available on more than just VAX/VMS)
EVE - an enhanced interface for Tpu
FINE - FINE Is Not EMACS, An EMACS-like editor for TOPS-10
IE - Interactive Editor, a screen editor written at Edinburgh Uinversity
KED - predecessor to EDT on PDP-11 machines
LSE - language sensitive editor - another enhanced interface for Tpu
Scroll - Scope editor for DEC PDP-8 systems
TECO - Tape Editor and Corrector - a line editor
TPU - Text Processing Utility (roughly equivalent in power to Emacs)
TYPSET - Line editor for Project MAC at MIT, running on DEC hardware
WEVE - Wonderful EVE (an enhanced version of EVE)
z - The Yale and Tulane Z Programmer's Editors for DEC Tops 20, VMS, Unix, Linux
zap for UNIX - Simple open source hex editor for UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS

GEC:

[About GEC Computers]

Text editors:

ECCE - Reimplementation of Edinburgh Compatible Context Editor in [Babbage] for [GEC 4000 Series], but not available outside of GEC Computers.
EDIT - Very basic line editor, forward motion only. Commands were allegedly based on an older Elliott Brothers paper tape editor.
GEDIT - Superset of the ICL George editor. Written by Dave Toll of Atlas Computing Centre.
PAGE - Screen editor written by Mike John of NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd.
SALVE - Screen editor implementation of ECCE (also available outside GEC Computers)
WS - Screen editor written by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Text formatters:

DOCU - Used to format the System Generation documentation
DORMAT - Allegedly based on IBM's Format. Written by Dr A Colin Day of University College London.
RUNOFF - Written/ported by Atlas Computing Centre.

Hewlett Packard:

[About Hewlett-Packard]

EDIT/3000 - A standard editor on HP-3000 mini-computers running MPE
HP EDIT - A standard editor on HP-3000 mini-computers running MPE
QEdit - A text editor for HP-3000 computers. used to be called QEdit)

Honeywell (Now Groupe Bull)

[About Honeywell]

FRED - Editor based on QED for GCOS8

IBM:

[About IBM]

CLEditor - Freeware Windows editor for the IBM AS/400 command language
SEU - Editor for the System34, System36, System38, and AS/400 lines

ICL

[About ICL]

George - Text editor on ICL 1900 Series George 3 Operating System

Prime:

[About Prime Computer]

ED-Prime - Text editor on Prime Computer Systems running PRIMOS