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Editors that ran on Digital Equipment Corporation PDP and VAX mini-computers, and emulators of those editors on other systems

DEC Family Editors:

DEC system editors:

ADAM - Extended version of EVE
Colossal Typewriter - One of the earliest computer text editors
DEC-SED - CRT editor for systems running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
DREDIT - DEC "drum editor" for editing files on magnetic tape
dxnotepad - Unix X-Windows text editor available for various architectures
Expensive Typewriter - DEC PDP-1 text editor that was arguably the first word processor
EDI - Line editor on DEC PDP-11 RSX/IAS
EDIT PDP-8 - Line editor on DEC PDP-8 systems
EDMACS - Editor based on MIT ITS Emacs, written in TECO for DEC systems running RSTS-E
EDT - the predecessor to TPU (available on more than just VAX/VMS)
Editing MACroS - RMS's original emacs, written in TECO under ITS
EVE - an enhanced interface for Tpu
FINE - FINE Is Not EMACS, An EMACS-like editor for TOPS-10
FOXE - a full screen editor available on DEC-20
KED - predecessor to EDT on PDP-11 machines
LINED - DEC Line Editor for Disk Files - a precursor to SOS, running on the PDP-6
LSE - language sensitive editor - another enhanced interface for Tpu
Red - Text editor for VAX/VMS systems, written in STOIC, a variant of FORTH
Scroll - Scope editor for DEC PDP-8 systems
SOS - Line editor for DEC PDP-11s running RSTE/E
STOPGAP - Early line editor for DEC PDP systems, ancestor of SOS
TECO - Tape Editor and Corrector - a line editor
TPU - Text Processing Utility (roughly equivalent in power to Emacs)
TV - TV Editor is a visual editor with a command line available on DEC 20 systems
TYPSET - Line editor for Project MAC at MIT, running on DEC hardware
WEVE - Wonderful EVE (an enhanced version of EVE)
WPE - WPS+ for ASCII files
WPS-PLUS - Word Processor component of DEC's All-In-One office suite
z - The Yale and Tulane Z Programmer's Editors for DEC Tops 20, VMS, Unix, Linux

DEC Text Formatters:

RUNOFF - Text formatter for Project MAC at MIT, used for printing text composed in TYPSET
TJ2 - Early text formatter for the PDP-1

DEC editor emulators for other systems:

ED-NT - Open source clone of DEC EDT editor for Windows console
EDIT-32 - EDIT-32 runs on a multi-user operating system called TSX-32
o3one EDT - Open source edt clone for Linux, OZONE, and VMS
Edt - Open source VMS EDT clone for Linux, Unix
EdtPlus - EDT clone for DOS, Windows
SEDT - EDT clone for PC and Unix platforms
sre - Stabie Rand Editor, an open source Linux clone of the Rand editor running on DEC PDP-11s