Me too. EDT could run circles around any editing package on an IBM type machine, or even word processing software on Modern PC's.
What I found most interesting was what the DEC CE told me. When I would call in for service, I would give the problem to the person at DEC SERVICE. He told me that I wasn't talking to a person, I was talking to a VAX.
The voice software that is around today (available commercially) still pales in comparison.
While working on the 11/870 and using EDT, I also had an AT&T 3B2/300 desktop mini at home (SysV Unix), and no decent screen editor (unless you count vi). So I took the sources for MicroEMACS which were fairly new then, and rewrote the keyboard definitions and macro handling so that it aped EDT... called it "edtmacs". Got it running on SysV, ported it to BSD, MS-DOS, MacOS (yikes!), and even back to the VAX, just because. And used it on a proprietary embedded industrial process control computer I designed in the late 80's.
All because I couldn't give up EDT's power. There was a company whose name I don't recall who produced a slick EDT for the IBM-PC, so I must not have been alone in my loyalty. :)
> I was talking to a VAX.
Now, THAT must have been way cool!