From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Michael Siegel <msi@malbolge.net>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Origins and life of the pg pager
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 05:41:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wsgewophe.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fafa3953-6dac-257a-ceca-b6c7a82eb482@mhorton.net> (Mary Ann Horton's message of "Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:37:35 -0700")
Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> Eric Shienbrood at Berkeley wrote "more" around 1979, and it was the
> standard BSD pager. It was inspired by the --More-- option in the ITS
> terminal driver at MIT.
Daniel Halbert wrote to comp.society.folklore in 1994:
"I was a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley in 1978. I had
been an undergraduate at MIT, and had used the ITS timesharing systems
there, which ran on PDP-10's. ITS put a "--MORE--" at the bottom of
the screen when one typed out files [..]
So I wrote a simple "cr3"-like program, but had it print "--More--"
instead of ringing the bell. I had it accept space instead of carriage
return to continue, because that was what I was used to from ITS."
Wikipedia says "more" was written by Daniel Halbert and expanded by Eric
Shienbrood and Geoff Peck.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-14 22:52 Warren Toomey
2020-06-14 23:37 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-14 23:52 ` [TUHS] " David Barto
2020-06-15 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 0:31 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 0:35 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 1:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-15 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 2:38 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:46 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:26 ` Charles H. Sauer
2020-06-15 14:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 20:19 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-15 20:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 0:32 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Nemo Nusquam
2020-06-15 5:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2020-06-15 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 15:04 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-15 16:14 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 15:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 19:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-21 18:49 ` Michael Siegel
2020-06-22 0:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-22 16:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-22 21:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-22 21:58 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-06-22 21:59 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2020-06-22 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-06-25 1:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-06-25 21:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-05 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-18 12:49 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Michael Siegel
2020-06-21 22:40 Noel Chiappa
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