[TUHS] Re: emacs

[Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 10:17:28PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Will Senn
>     > Was TECO ever on unix?
> 
> I don't think it was widespread, but there was a TECO on the PDP-11 UNIXes at
> MIT; until Montgomery Emacs arrived, it was the primary editor used on those
> machines.
> 
> Not that most people used TECO commands for editing; early on, they added '^R
> mode' to the UNIX TECO, similar to the one on ITS TECO, and a macro package
> was written for it (in TECO - so again, the source looks like line noise);
> the command set was like a stripped down EMACS - about a dozen command
> characters total; see the table about a page down here:
> 
>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/teco/help
> 
> All the source, and documentation, such as it is, it available, here:
> 
>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/teco/
> 
> but don't even think about running it. It's written in MACRO-11, and it used
> a version of that hacked at MIT to run on UNIX. To build new versions of
> that, you need a special linker - written in BCPL. So you also need the UNIX
> BCPL compiler.
> 
> 	Noel

The HRSTS version of it can be found in the UNSW tapes.
The usenix 77 tape has h/help/teco and a 0-sized h/teco/cont.a
Matt Fichtenbaum's TECO for Ultrix appears in
tuhs/Applications/Shoppa_Tapes/usenix878889.tar.gz
usenix87/Editors/Teco/

"Harvard UNIX TECO runs under the UNIX operating system on a
PDP-11.  It was written by Bob Case, Peter Langston, Bruce Borden,
Brent Byer, and Tucker Taft using the Harvard-Radcliffe Student
Timesharing System (HRSTS)."

"Harvard UNIX TECO is based on a 1973 version of MIT TECO and is
written in MACRO-11. There is a possibility that this TECO will
be expanded and recoded into C in the near future."

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/teco/MobyMunger_%233part2_Nov79.pdf

"HRSTS (new)Teco V_3p"

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UNSW/88/
hp14/source/L/teco/

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UNSW/90/
L/teco/

"BBN has a TECO for Unix."
tuhs/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V01.5.pdf pg 57
SOFTWARE TOOLS and UNIX Users Group Conference Report
by David M. Phillips, 26 June 1979