Reminds me of my typesetting story (search the list's archives for versatec and vegents, that should find it.) -rob On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM Clem Cole wrote: > Oh how I hate history rewrites. Job control was developed by Kulp on V7 > in Europe and MIT. Joy saw it and added it what would become 4BSD. > > The others were all developed on V7 (PDP11)at UCB. They were not back > ported either. The vax work inherited them from V7. > > It is true, The public tended to see these as 4BSD features as that was > the vehicle that got larger distribution. > > Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual > > > On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM Jonathan Gray wrote: > >> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 07:03:48PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson 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? >> >> "In particular, the C shell, curses, termcap, vi and job control were >> ported back to Version 7 (and later System III) so that it was not >> unusual to find these features on otherwise pure Bell releases." >> from Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix_v2.pdf >> >> in some v7ish distributions: unisoft, xenix, nu machine, venix? >> >> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf pg 437 >> >> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up >> >> >> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Software_Development_1982.pdf >> pg 580 >> >> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopment1982_27714599/page/n579/mode/2up >> >> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf pg 412 >> >> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up >> >