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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:32:58 -0400 |
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> I had no exposure to ITS and so have no knowledge of its history
> or the tools that it offered. Was TECO truly its first editor?
Yes. PDP-10 TECO came before ITS.
The PDP-10 was an upward-compatible improvement of the PDP-6.
The AI lab first got a PDP-6 and wrote a TECO for it.
The PDP-6 was not suitable for timesharing. So when it got the
PDP-10, people immediately used TECO on that too, but they also wrote
ITS.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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