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From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix?
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 20:48:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZlHCFj67W74P3v_p@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240525000348.hq5zvwm6x4evl44h@illithid>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-25 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-25  0:03 [TUHS] " G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25  0:46 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2024-05-25  0:57   ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 10:48 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
2024-05-25 11:08   ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2024-05-25 12:16   ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 23:06     ` Rob Pike
2024-05-25 15:06   ` [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-25 15:11     ` [TUHS] " Rich Salz
2024-05-25 15:40       ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 15:43         ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 15:51         ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 15:57         ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 16:06           ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 16:13             ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 16:21               ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 16:38                 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 17:02                   ` Warner Losh
2024-05-25 16:14             ` Clem Cole
2024-05-25 16:25               ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 18:07               ` Adam Sampson
2024-05-27 18:31                 ` Mary Ann Horton
2024-05-25 15:28     ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 17:24 Steve Simon

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