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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 08:20:21 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180524122021.857BC18C09A@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Lars Brinkhoff

    > I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other versions or
    > similar Unix programs before that?

The MIT ~PWB1 system had a thing called 'dpy', I think written at MIT based on
'ps' (and no doubt inspired by ITS' PEEK), which had similar functionality.
Seems like it never escaped, though. Man page and source here:

  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/man1/dpy.1
  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/dpy.c

The top of my hard-copy man page says 'November 1977', but I suspect it dates
back further than that.

     Noel



             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-24 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 12:20 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 14:50   ` [TUHS] Control-T (was top) Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 15:01     ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 15:48       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24 15:08     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-28 22:32       ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-28 23:11         ` Clem cole
2018-05-28 23:32           ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29  1:12         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-28 10:31 ` [TUHS] History of top Lars Brinkhoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-29 21:35 Norman Wilson
2018-05-29 21:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 18:55 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-29 19:14 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-29 20:57   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-30  5:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-28 22:43 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-05-29  0:16 ` Clem cole
2018-05-29  1:34   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-29  6:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-29 14:18   ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 15:10     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 15:48     ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-29 16:54 ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-29 17:08   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-24  6:14 Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24  9:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-24 10:58   ` jason-tuhs

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