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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: regex early discussions
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:49:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wsf155g20.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MvRV9EWsbT7zsmOzb6wm1iGh36JhQ6ws61zj+TcuhfwQ@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:53:52 -0500")

Clem Cole wrote:
> Jargon file says: SOS n.,obs. /S-O-S/ 1. An infamously {losing} text
> editor.  Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for
> the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap
> editor' to be used until a better one was written.

Thank you.  Some additional clues: the jargon file started at SAIL, and
shortly after was adopted by MIT and then jointly maintained.  So it's
not clear which one is "the PDP-6" here.  As far as I know, Bill Weiher,
the creator of STOPGAP and/or SOS?, is associated with SAIL, not MIT.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-05  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2024-03-04 20:27   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2024-03-04 20:53     ` Clem Cole
2024-03-05  6:49       ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2024-03-05 16:34         ` Clem Cole
2024-03-06  0:59           ` Will Senn
2024-03-05 19:30 Noel Chiappa

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