[TUHS] Re: Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix?

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Clem,

At 2024-05-25T12:06:27-0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> Ken [Arnold] was working in Ing70 [he was part of the Ingres group] -
> IngVax did not yet exist,

That does complicate my simplistic story.  Ing70 was, then, as you noted
in a previous mail, an 11/70, but it _wasn't_ running Version 7 Unix,
but rather something with various bits of BSD (also in active
development, I reckon).  Nevertheless, I venture, the first officially
distributed curses was in 4BSD, a VAX-only release.  But, it stands to
reason that BSD curses never got far from its -11-portable roots; it
must have been obvious that the library would be desired on such hosts
and the CSRG came to officially support it thus in 2.9BSD 3 years later.

Hmm.  I'll have to chew on how to recast that economically.

Thanks for all the light you're throwing on this!

Regards,
Branden

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