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Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > On 08/05/2013 12:09 PM, Aaron Crane wrote: >> So this aspect of Perl can be dated back to code written no later than >> 1970, for a text editor running on an operating system that I suspect >> noone subscribed to this list has ever used. > > For the record, I come close. I used to use the qed text editor on a Bell > Labs operating system called TSS. I presume this is related to the CTSS > menioned. Thank you! AFAICT from Googling, CTSS came first, and Bell Labs had both "Nike TSS" (a copy of CTSS) and the IBM TSS/360 (which apparently isn't closely related to it). This piece says that the Nike TSS ran at the Bell Labs Whippany facility, and TSS/360 at Indian Hill: http://manpages.bsd.lv/history/canaday_24_10_2011.txt It does seem to rely on the participants' memory, though, so perhaps it isn't entirely accurate. -- Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next