[TUHS] Old screen editors
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Mar 30 15:11:31 AEST 2022
So the question is, does anyone have a UNIX 4.0 source tape?
Otherwise, I think it probably really is lost in the sands
of time.
Thanks,
Arnold
Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com> wrote:
> alas, no.
> it should have been on some official source tapes, tho.
> it was part of some office automation set of software;
> maybe that was mentioned in the tapes.
>
> i too remember nothing about it. outside of doing it
> because management wanted it, i never optionally used it.
>
> > On Mar 29, 2022, at 7:35 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> >
> > Cool! I bet this was it! It was on a System 4 system.
> >
> > The commands were entered at the top of the screen. I remember almost
> > nothing else about it.
> >
> > Is there any chance you still have the source?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arnold
> >
> > Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com> wrote:
> >
> >> se?
> >>
> >> this may be a consequence for using such a bland name for a screen editor,
> >> but i wrote a screen editor called ’se’ in 1981-83, just after we had moved
> >> from piscataway to murray hill.
> >>
> >> it was part of an effort to do office automation style products for Unix,
> >> and came in around the time Unix transitioned from System III through
> >> System 4 through the early days of System V.
> >>
> >> my se was not very good, but i did have denis ritchie as an early tester.
>
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