From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix stories, Stephen Bourne and IF-FI in C code
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:44:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ACCB8C73-BBA6-4BA6-B2B5-7B710503FF18@serissa.com> (raw)
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> On 2017, Jan 9, at 11:03 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, <arnold at skeeve.com <mailto:arnold at skeeve.com>> wrote:
> I remember the Bournegol well; I did some hacking on the BSD shell.
> Yep - lots of strange things in source debuggers.
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> In general, it wasn't too unusual for people from Pascal backgrounds to
> do similar things,
> When we did Magnolia & Tektronix the ex-Xerox/Alta guys lusted for Cedar/Mesa et al - and quickly discovered the Bournegol idea.
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> I shook my head/shrugged my shoulders, but it made them happy and they quickly wrote some pretty cool tools, like an ECAD system.
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Speaking as an ex-Xerox/Alto guy, there was some flow in the other direction as well. Cedar started with a Tenex CMD JSYS derived command line, like the Alto OS before it, but having received the True Word from V7 at Stanford, I wrote a Cedar shell with standard I/O and redirection and shell scripts. I don’t think I did pipes. It did become the standard command line interface. Then Warren Teitelman added DWIM to it which was highly entertaining at times.
-L
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2017-01-09 2:30 Norman Wilson
2017-01-09 3:31 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-09 15:30 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-09 15:45 ` arnold
2017-01-09 15:59 ` ron minnich
2017-01-09 16:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-10 18:44 ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2017-01-09 18:48 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-01-09 20:35 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-10 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2017-01-11 6:00 ` Brantley Coile
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2017-01-10 13:50 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-10 4:40 Rudi Blom
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2017-01-10 3:11 ` Paul McJones
2017-01-09 1:06 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-09 2:18 ` Random832
2017-01-08 20:37 Walter F.J. Mueller
2017-01-08 21:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-08 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-08 21:54 ` Kay Parker
2017-01-08 23:14 ` Adam Sampson
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