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On 08/05/2013 01:10 PM, Aaron Crane wrote: > 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. > I remotely used the one from Indian Hill (IH for short; located in a Chicago suburb), so a different OS, but I suspect that it's the same QED that had been ported to it.Thread Previous | Thread Next