From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 19:35:54 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805241928420.810@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wzi0p60mj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
On Thu, 24 May 2018, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> I'm curious about the history of "top". As far as I can see, the first
> version was written by William LeFebvre and posted to net.sources in
> 1984. I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other
> versions or similar Unix programs before that?
My memory is failing me, but I seem to recall that here in Oz we had a
similar program, possibly written by Piers Lauder? Or IanJ?
It was called "ss" or something, for "system status", and I dimly recall
modifying it (or suggesting same) to show the hostname.
-- Dave
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-24 6:14 Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24 9:35 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-05-24 10:58 ` jason-tuhs
2018-05-24 12:20 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-28 10:31 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-28 22:43 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-05-29 0:16 ` Clem cole
2018-05-29 1:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-29 6:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-29 14:18 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 15:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 15:48 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-29 16:54 ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-29 17:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 18:55 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-29 19:14 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-29 20:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-30 5:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-29 21:35 Norman Wilson
2018-05-29 21:45 ` Arthur Krewat
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