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* [TUHS] Software Archeology: QED
@ 2019-02-04 20:53 Christopher Browne
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From: Christopher Browne @ 2019-02-04 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Sorry to drop in on the thread a bit late, and, strictly speaking, not
(according to headers) connected to the thread; I am well acquainted
with David Tilbrook, who is sadly not doing too well; it is not
surprising that Leah Neukirchen was unable to get a hold of him as he
hasn't been using email for some number of years > 1, and is
definitely not programming.

Hugh Redelmeier and I are looking into trying to do some preservation
of his QEF toolset that included the QED port.

Neither Hugh nor I are ourselves QED users; I'm about 30 years into my
Emacs learning curve, albeit using Remacs (the Rust implementation)
lately, while Hugh maintains JOVE to the extent to which it remains
maintained.  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/pub/hugh/jove-dev/
-- 
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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* Re: [TUHS] Software Archeology: QED
@ 2018-10-25 22:47 Noel Chiappa
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From: Noel Chiappa @ 2018-10-25 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: Noel Hunt

    > In addition to SINE, does anyone know what happened to EINE?

Was replaced by ZWEI fairly early on.

Zwei
Was
Eine
Initially

Dunno if it still exists on an MIT dump-tape somewhere.

	Noel

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* Re: [TUHS] Software Archeology: QED
@ 2018-10-10 19:21 Norman Wilson
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From: Norman Wilson @ 2018-10-10 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Leah Neukirchen:

  I tried contacting David Tilbrook several times and got no replies.

  I think some people around Toronto still use qed, but they seem to be
  very secretive about it.

====

David is likely well-retired by now, but I don't really know.
Even though I walk within a block of his house fairly often,
we've never really been consistently in touch.

But he was responsible for a distinct branch of the qed that
originated at the University of Toronto in the late 1970s
(same one Rob supplied).  Certainly worth tracking down.

I don't know your definitions of `people around Toronto' or
`secretive.'  I still use qed daily; my copy is one I've been
carrying around, and occasionally tweaking, since my time at
Caltech (where I got it from Rob).  I'll send Arnold a copy.
I'm really tired both of having to recompile it (and deal with
yet another bit of obsolete-C assumption that no previous
compiler or C library has shown up) now and then, and with
its private variant of regular expressions, so I keep threatening
(mainly to myself) to rewrite it in Python, but I have no idea
whether I'll ever get around to that.  If I do I suspect I'll
throw away some of the programmability hooks, which I never use,
and perhaps extend it here and there (I really want nesting
globals, and they're not that hard to do--I did them in my
half-baked personal mail reader, which has an ed-like interface).

I don't know offhand of anyone else around Toronto using my
branch of qed.  I do know of a couple of friends in California,
one who left Caltech before I did but is now back there, another
elsewhere in Los Angeles, who still use my version at least
occasionally.  It wouldn't surprise me if there were people
around Toronto who use Tilbrook's branch, since it was part
of his qef toolkit and he introduced several companies to it
when consulting for them; but I don't know of any specifics.

None of which is as archaeologically interesting as the
non-UNIX qeds, of course.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

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* [TUHS] Software Archeology: QED
@ 2018-10-07  6:07 arnold
  2018-10-07 10:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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From: arnold @ 2018-10-07  6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Hi All.

I am starting to collect, if possible, different versions of the QED
editor; with a hope to put up a git repo.

If you have a tarball of code, please send it to me with as much info
about it as you have.  I would like to track down the qedbuf(1) man page
also.

I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball from him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.

Much thanks!

Arnold

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2018-10-08  3:58 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
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2018-10-07 10:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-07 10:23   ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-10-07 12:33     ` Donald ODona
2018-10-07 12:46       ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-07 13:20         ` jsteve
2018-10-07 12:52       ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-10-08 10:18         ` KatolaZ
2018-10-07 16:41     ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2018-10-07 12:41 ` Donald ODona
2018-10-07 14:11   ` arnold
2018-10-07 15:41     ` Donald ODona
2018-10-07 15:52     ` Leah Neukirchen
2018-10-07 17:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-07 17:11   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-08  3:21   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-08 19:00 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-10-25  6:56 ` Donald ODona
2018-10-25 16:09   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-25 21:15     ` Noel Hunt

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