Editing Prime Computer (section)

==Phantom, CPL and ED==
"Phantoms" were a form of unattended background processes that immediately  began to run in the background when initiated by the PHANTOM command. "Conventional" batch jobs were initiated via the JOB command, including the ability to schedule them for a particular time.

CPL, the PRIMOS Command Processing Language was the [[shell (computing)|shell]] [[scripting language]].

The PRIMOS text editor ''[[Ed (software)|ED]]'' was a [[line editor]]. It could record a command sequence and replay it on different files. [[Emacs]], a [[Full-screen writing program|full screen editor]], was also available.<ref>"I learned Emacs first on [[PRIMOS]] and it took me a couple of years to later feel ..."{{cite web
|url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/293213/emacs-keybinding-hall-of-fame-shame/293688
|title=EMACS keybinding hall of fame   |website=stackoverflow.com}}</ref><ref>"I'm a long-time user of Prime EMACS for the Prime 50 Series under PRIMOS, and"{{cite web
|url=https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.emacs/ox9ZxDB7r6o
|title=GNU EMACS For Prime Computer under PRIMOS
|date=November 18, 1988 |website=groups.google.com}}</ref>