[TUHS] Strange Reference on Usenix_77 tape
Lars Brinkhoff
lars at nocrew.org
Fri Sep 23 03:00:06 AEST 2022
Warner Losh wrote:
> > For those of us not involved with Unix in 1977, what was the
> > HRSTS system?
>
> ‘The Harvard/Radcliffe Student Time-sharing System Terminal Users Guide,
> 1st edition, September 10, 1974, Center for Research in Computing
> Technology, Harvard University’.
>
> These are the same folks that also did the LISP that appeared in
> various 2BSD distributions as well. There's a special C compiler.
I found a description in a Usenix paper[1], and it really seems to be a
lot of "Harvard specials" in there. MACRO-11, LINK-11, DDT, TECO,
FILCOM, shell with TENEX file completion, even ECL[2]. To me it looks
like a layer of PDP-10 on top of Unix.
[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_june_11_unix_news.pdf
[2] https://github.com/PDP-10/harvard-ecl
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