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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:29:51 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
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> 
> It was in the terminal driver from VMS ;-)

The T in TCSH was TENEX, which indeed had such editing as part of the COMND (command) JSYS (essentially an OS call).    This propagated forward into TOPS-20.    It isn’t really the terminal driver, but more of a command line processor call.