From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net (jason-tuhs@shalott.net)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 03:58:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1805240344290.11938@waffle.shalott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805241928420.810@aneurin.horsfall.org>
>> 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.
BSD's systat is similar.
The current manpage says it was released in 4.3 BSD, but the copyright
notices in the code go back to 1980, with comments crediting "Bill Reeves
at Lucasfilm."
https://www.retro11.de/ouxr/211bsd/usr/src/ucb/PORT/systat/pigs.c.html
-Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-24 10:58 UTC|newest]
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
2018-05-24 10:58 ` jason-tuhs [this message]
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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