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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old screen editors
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:36:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wlewsknmq.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220329103902.42B9218C085@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (Noel Chiappa's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:39:02 -0400 (EDT)")

Noel Chiappa writes:
> historical aside: at one point there was a whole 'Ivory' package for
> ITS TECO which could 'purify' ITS TECO code so that one copy in core
> [actual, real core!] could be shared by multiple processes.

There still is an Ivory package, and it's used by a few EMACS libraries.

> That was used to write an EMACS-like package for the PDP-11 UNIX TECO
> (but much simpler than real EMACS), which we used for quite a while
> before Montgomery EMACS for UNIX showed up.

ObUnix.  Montgomery EMACS now shows up again, thanks to Noel.  I put a
copy here, which also references the origin:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ejnc/tech/unix/emacs

Montgomery wrote about the history behind his editor:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-30  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 10:39 Noel Chiappa
2022-03-29 11:05 ` Rob Pike
2022-03-29 13:37 ` Clem Cole
2022-03-29 15:43 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-03-30  5:36 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-29 20:40 Noel Chiappa
2022-03-29 20:50 ` Phil Budne
2022-03-29 20:54 ` Ron Natalie
2022-03-30  5:41   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-03-30  7:50     ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-03-29 19:09 Steve Simon
2022-03-29 21:46 ` Ron Natalie
2022-03-30  0:22   ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2022-03-29 18:35 Noel Chiappa
2022-03-28 21:03 [TUHS] Alive? Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-03-28 22:24 ` Bakul Shah
2022-03-28 23:23   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-03-29  0:00     ` Bakul Shah
2022-03-29  0:31       ` [TUHS] Old screen editors Lawrence Stewart
2022-03-29  0:53         ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-03-29  8:29           ` Rob Pike
2022-03-29 13:24             ` Clem Cole
2022-03-29  8:34           ` George Michaelson
2022-03-29  8:40             ` arnold
2022-03-29 13:45               ` Clem Cole
2022-03-29 14:31                 ` Andrew Hume
2022-03-29 14:35                   ` arnold
2022-03-29 14:42                     ` Andrew Hume
2022-03-30  0:59                       ` Mary Ann Horton
2022-03-30  5:11                       ` arnold
2022-03-29 12:45         ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-03-29 13:26           ` arnold
2022-03-30  8:37         ` Ralph Corderoy

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