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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 06:53:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wd0xfvtp9.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1527547393.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu> (Nelson H. F. Beebe's message of "Mon, 28 May 2018 16:43:13 -0600")

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I therefore expect that there was 460-entry list of log messages that
> predated 2-Jun-1979, and likely went back a few years.  Two other
> versions of sysdpy.mac in my archives have also dropped log messages
> before 461.

The copyright notice goes back to 1976, which is about then TOPS-20 was
first released, right?

Is this a TOPS-10 version of SYSDPY?  It was copyrighted in 1970.

http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-jr93e-bb/14/7,6/ap014/sysdpy.x14.html

> Even before TOPS-20, on the CDC 6400 SCOPE operating system, there was
> a similar tool (whose name I no longer recall) that gave a
> continuously updated display of system-wide process activity. That was
> available in at least late 1973.

I didn't mean to start a mine-is-older-than-yours, but anyway, PEEK
is documented in AI memo 169 from November 1968.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-29  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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
  -- 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
2018-05-24 12:20 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-28 10:31 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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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