<div dir="auto">I’m traveling this weekend so I’m doing this by memory. ISTR The original curses was developed on Ing70 as part of Rogue and that It missed the 2BSD tape by about a year. See if you can find an early Rogue distribution and I think you’ll find it there. If not look in the early net news source distributions. <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM G. Branden Robinson <<a href="mailto:g.branden.robinson@gmail.com">g.branden.robinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I'm finding it difficult to find any direct sources on the question in<br>
the subject line.<br>
<br>
Does anyone here have any source material they can point me to<br>
documenting the existence of a port of BSD curses to Unix Version 7?<br>
<br>
I know that curses made it into 2.9BSD for the PDP-11, but that's not<br>
quite the same thing.<br>
<br>
There are comments in System V Release 2's curses.h file[1][2] (very<br>
different from 4BSD's[3]) that suggest some effort to accommodate<br>
Version 7's terminal driver. So I would _presume_ that curses got<br>
ported to Version 7. But that's System V, right when it started<br>
diverging from BSD curses, and moreover, presumption is not evidence.<br>
<br>
Even personal accounts/anecdotes would be helpful. Maybe some of you<br>
_wrote_ curses applications for Version 7 machines.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Branden<br>
<br>
[1] System III apparently did not have curses at all. Both it and 4BSD<br>
were released in 1980. System V Release 1 doesn't seem to, either.<br>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/ryanwoodsmall/oldsysv/blob/master/sysvr2-vax/include/curses.h" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ryanwoodsmall/oldsysv/blob/master/sysvr2-vax/include/curses.h</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/include/curses.h" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/include/curses.h</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>