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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
August 5, 2013 19:45
Subject:
Re: [perl #119095] Empty regular expression does not match in somecases
Message ID:
520000D5.9000506@khwilliamson.com
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.

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