From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 19:35:54 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] History of top In-Reply-To: <7wzi0p60mj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: <7wzi0p60mj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Message-ID: 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