From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alec.muffett@gmail.com (Alec Muffett) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:31:05 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] UK written UNIX line editor in early 80s? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 13 April 2017 at 21:35, Adam Sampson wrote: > Steve Mynott writes: > > > In the autumn of 1984 as an undergrad at Durham University [...] a > > strange line editor [...] it seemed to resemble ex. I think I was > > told it was written in the UK [...] > > ECCE, maybe? This originated at Edinburgh in the late 60s and was ported > to all sorts of languages and platforms. See the DCS archive for many > versions (including several Unix ports with mid-80s dates) and manuals: > I vaguely remember hearing of ecce, I think; however many British universities in the 1980s that I knew (largely from the student-hacker community) ran the children of an editor called GEORGE descended from an old ICL operating system: - http://www.icl1900.co.uk/g3/editor.html (user doc) - http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3/LeedsDoc/sect-e.htm (manual) - http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3/ (source) The variant at UCL was called "gedit" and hosted on OS/4000 ( https://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3197) The variant at Aberystwyth was called "ge" and hosted on GECOS-3 and various Unixen There were many others; having infected (?) the UK community in the 1970s (?) it became a favourite. -a ps: as a friend likes to point out, OS/4000, as a B2-secure (ha) military-grade operating system, had some fabulous syntax. The equivalent to Unix's "rm -rf ~" would be: "FCOPY USER SINK TRACE DESTROY" ...which basically implemented a recursive "mv" to /dev/null, directories included. -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: