From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: dave@horsfall.org, clemc@ccc.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] user-level v1
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:03:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909160603.x8G637QQ026140@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AFC45890-C786-444F-9635-AD79D03E3228@ccc.com>
No, Bill Joy did vi. Ken Arnold did curses. The vi code did all it's
stuff directly with the termlib library calls. (Use The Source, Luke!)
Curses provided a library explicitly for screen oriented stuff that worked
at a higher level.
Mary Anne can and should tell the story of the progression of curses
to System V and terminfo.
Arnold
Clem cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Yes, Ken Arnold did both
>
> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
>
> > On Sep 15, 2019, at 6:09 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Warren Toomey wrote:
> >
> >>> The TUHS archive does not include /usr/src for v1. Does it exist anywhere?
> >>
> >> We've not been able to find it, no :-(
> >
> > Speaking of which, I heard that the curses library was simply ripped out of VI and made stand-alone; a rumour goes that the best test suite for curses was the game "rogue" :-) I still play it from time to time, but cannot get rog-o-matic to compile on the Mac.
> >
> > -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-16 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-15 16:17 Doug McIlroy
2019-09-15 20:11 ` Warren Toomey
2019-09-15 22:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-15 23:15 ` Clem cole
2019-09-16 6:03 ` arnold [this message]
2019-09-16 14:40 ` Clem Cole
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