Lars Brinkhoff
Lars Brinkhoff
An Infocom memo dated 12/12/88 says RMODE source files will not be moved from Fred to the new Sun file server. https://archive.org/details/InfocomCabinetMemos1988/page/n81
Hello @taa01776, Does it seem correct that the RMODE text editor was used in the Dynamic Modeling group, and then on the Infocom FRED DEC-20 until around 1988?
Thanks for checking!
We now have the file %SYS; 0407 XPDL06, " RMODE: A Real-Time Edit Facility".
First mention of RMODE in DM .TAPE directories is .MSGS.; RMODE 1 from February 1975.
[LCS Progress Report 16](https://ban.ai/multics/doc/a088355.pdf): > Rmode, a real-time display text editor, was modified to run on Tops-20 (Lebling), and now has a common source compatible with both ITS and Tops-20.
Rmode in use at Infocom. From a [1985 BBC documentary](https://fb.watch/2XQf0xuJk9/). 
I looked at using eight or nine bits for the year field. For eight, it's generally agreed that it's probably no problem. For nine, I didn't see anything obviously damaging,...
Thanks for checking. There's also a chance some user program may use a negative value to signal a special condition.
I set my TT ITS clock to 2028 and made a file with CREATE. It got timestamped 1928.