Check Paul Cantrell's VTECO - Video Teco Manual where has the sources here Video Teco Sourceforge Masters Ward had a nice history here: TecoEditor - worth reading - there are some wonderful quotes. BTW I agree with Ward, while Ed Post was mostly right in his "real Programmer' don't use Pascal" tome (also a classic read), but real TECO users do know what typing their name will do ;-) On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:39 AM Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: George Michaelson > > > Teco was painful. > > Some of us can recall when the _only_ choices for editing on UNIX (on the > PWB1 systems at MIT) were 'ed' and TECO! > > But to add some real history (not just the usual low S/N flaming about > people's opinions of various relatively recent software, which is way too > common on this list), the guys at MIT in DSSR/RTS (the group which later > did > the 68K version of PCC), who had done the port of PDP-11 TECO (in MACRO-11) > from the Delphi system at MIT (which preceded adoption of UNIX there) - a > comment in one source file alludes to Delphi, so that's where it came > from, to > UNIX (I think this TECO was written there, and was not a port of a DEC one, > since it's all in lower case, and doesn't have other DEC stylisms), after > the > port, added a '^R mode' similar to the one added to the PDP-10 ITS TECO and > used there to write EMACS (in TECO's usual 'line noise' code - historical > aside: at one point there was a whole 'Ivory' package for ITS TECO which > could > 'purify' ITS TECO code so that one copy in core [actual, real core!] could > be > shared by multiple processes). That was used to write an EMACS-like package > for the PDP-11 UNIX TECO (but much simpler than real EMACS), which we used > for > quite a while before Montgomery EMACS for UNIX showed up. > > The full dump of the MIT-CSR PWB1 UNIX system which I retrieved has all the > sources and documentation for that TECO, and the ^R-mode code, etc. If > anyone > is interested in seeing it (or maybe even playing with it, which will need > the UNIX MACRO-11), let me know, and I'll upload it. > > Noel > > PS: Speaking of the full dump of the MIT-CSR PWB1 UNIX system, I was poking > around it a couple of days ago, and I found V6 'multiplexor' kernel > drivers - > mpio.c and mpx.c, etc - I think thay 'fell off the back of a truck' at > Bell, > like a lot of other stuff we weren't supposed to have, like the circuit > design > tools, etc. I'm not sure if I have the user programs to go with them; I > think > I may have found some of them for Paul Ruizendaal a while back, but the > memory > has faded. Again, if interested, let me know. >