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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 10:31:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wlgc4ystf.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180524122021.857BC18C09A@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (Noel Chiappa's message of "Thu, 24 May 2018 08:20:21 -0400 (EDT)")

> The MIT ~PWB1 system had a thing called 'dpy', I think written at MIT
> based on 'ps' (and no doubt inspired by ITS' PEEK)

Indeed my hidden agenda was to find a link between top and PEEK.
But apparently the inspiration came from VMS:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170527120123/http://www.unixtop.org:80/about.shtml


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-28 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 12:20 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 14:50   ` [TUHS] Control-T (was top) Ronald Natalie
2018-05-24 15:01     ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 15:48       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24 15:08     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-28 22:32       ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-28 23:11         ` Clem cole
2018-05-28 23:32           ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29  1:12         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-28 10:31 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-29 21:35 [TUHS] History of top 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
2018-05-28 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
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
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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