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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.