From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:44:10 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Unix stories, Stephen Bourne and IF-FI in C code In-Reply-To: References: <1483929007.6355.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <934ec8dea21ce728b7c4e70a6ee2deb86af39d27@webmail.yaccman.com> <201701091545.v09FjlXE027448@freefriends.org> Message-ID: > On 2017, Jan 9, at 11:03 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, > wrote: > I remember the Bournegol well; I did some hacking on the BSD shell. > ​Yep - lots of strange things in source debuggers.​ > > > > 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. ​ > > I shook my head/shrugged my shoulders, but it made them happy and they quickly wrote some pretty cool tools, like an ECAD system. > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: