<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Reminds me of my typesetting story (search the list's archives for versatec and vegents, that should find it.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM Clem Cole <<a href="mailto:clemc@ccc.com">clemc@ccc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Oh how I hate history rewrites.  Job control was developed by Kulp on V7 in Europe and MIT.  Joy saw it and added it what would become 4BSD.  </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The others were all developed on V7 (PDP11)at UCB.  They were not back ported either. The vax work inherited them from V7. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is true, The public tended to see these as 4BSD features as that was the vehicle that got larger distribution.  <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="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 Sat, May 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM Jonathan Gray <<a href="mailto:jsg@jsg.id.au" target="_blank">jsg@jsg.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 07:03:48PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:<br>
> 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>
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"In particular, the C shell, curses, termcap, vi and job control were<br>
ported back to Version 7 (and later System III) so that it was not<br>
unusual to find these features on otherwise pure Bell releases."<br>
from Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix_v2.pdf<br>
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in some v7ish distributions: unisoft, xenix, nu machine, venix?<br>
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<a href="https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf</a> pg 437<br>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up</a><br>
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<a href="https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Software_Development_1982.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Software_Development_1982.pdf</a> pg 580<br>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopment1982_27714599/page/n579/mode/2up" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopment1982_27714599/page/n579/mode/2up</a><br>
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<a href="https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf</a> pg 412<br>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up</a><br>
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