I’m traveling this weekend so I’m doing this by memory.  ISTR The original
curses was developed on Ing70 as part of Rogue and that It missed the 2BSD
tape by about a year.  See if you can find an early Rogue distribution and
I think you’ll find it there.  If not look in the early net news source
distributions.

Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm finding it difficult to find any direct sources on the question in
> the subject line.
>
> Does anyone here have any source material they can point me to
> documenting the existence of a port of BSD curses to Unix Version 7?
>
> I know that curses made it into 2.9BSD for the PDP-11, but that's not
> quite the same thing.
>
> There are comments in System V Release 2's curses.h file[1][2] (very
> different from 4BSD's[3]) that suggest some effort to accommodate
> Version 7's terminal driver.  So I would _presume_ that curses got
> ported to Version 7.  But that's System V, right when it started
> diverging from BSD curses, and moreover, presumption is not evidence.
>
> Even personal accounts/anecdotes would be helpful.  Maybe some of you
> _wrote_ curses applications for Version 7 machines.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
> [1] System III apparently did not have curses at all.  Both it and 4BSD
>     were released in 1980.  System V Release 1 doesn't seem to, either.
> [2]
> https://github.com/ryanwoodsmall/oldsysv/blob/master/sysvr2-vax/include/curses.h
> [3]
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/include/curses.h
>