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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Strange Reference on Usenix_77 tape
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:00:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wczbnwdih.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrqBcLmaxig6gCV4NY3Ndkw2PQE=yxVT7hvnik0hVBjMQ@mail.gmail.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:13:38 -0600")

Warner Losh wrote:
>  > For those of us not involved with Unix in 1977, what was the
>  > HRSTS system?
>
>  ‘The Harvard/Radcliffe Student Time-sharing System Terminal Users Guide,
>   1st edition, September 10, 1974, Center for Research in Computing
>   Technology, Harvard University’.
>
> These are the same folks that also did the LISP that appeared in
> various 2BSD distributions as well.  There's a special C compiler.

I found a description in a Usenix paper[1], and it really seems to be a
lot of "Harvard specials" in there.  MACRO-11, LINK-11, DDT, TECO,
FILCOM, shell with TENEX file completion, even ECL[2].  To me it looks
like a layer of PDP-10 on top of Unix.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_june_11_unix_news.pdf
[2] https://github.com/PDP-10/harvard-ecl

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-22 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-22  8:26 [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-09-22  8:42 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2022-09-22  9:00   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-09-22 16:13     ` Warner Losh
2022-09-22 17:00       ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2022-09-22 17:49         ` [TUHS] Re: Berkeley 11/70 (was Re: Strange Reference on Usenix_77 tape) Dan Cross
2022-09-22 20:38         ` [TUHS] Re: Strange Reference on Usenix_77 tape Clem Cole
2022-09-24  3:54           ` Warner Losh

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