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X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" C main programs define =E2=80=9Cmain=E2=80=9D. This also seems to be true of B main programs, according to the = Johnson/Kernighan manual The 1967 Martin Richards BCPL manual doesn=E2=80=99t explain how = programs get started The 1974 update from Martin Richards says there should be an OS addendum = that explains this. The 1974 University of Essex BCPL manual says to use START The 1979 Parc Alto BCPL manual uses Main and I think that must be = unchanged from 1972. The AMSTRAD BCPL guide from 1986 uses start() So who started =E2=80=9Cmain=E2=80=9D and when? I can=E2=80=99t find an = online copy of the Bell Laboratories BCPL manual (Canaday/Thompson) from = 1969 or anything about how to use BCPL on Multics or CTSS. -L