explor is (was) a graphical language by ken knowlton. it ran offline on the mainframe and produced a mag tape to be run on a machine called tapex. the tapex machine exposed micro-film that had to be developed and printed. not the quickest turnaround. anyway, i wrote a unix version of explor that printed directly on a tek display terminal. it was never really used for anything. somewhere, i have polaroids of pictures of explor output on the tek. On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 5:00 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: > Good day, something I've come across in my documentation study that I finally got around to researching a bit is a reference to the language Explor in the V2 ld(I) page: > > 'There are libraries for Fortran (x="f"), C (x="c"), Explor (x="e") and B (x="b").' > > The manual has no corresponding mention of any Explor environment, not even a section VI page. The only other UNIX Explor reference I can easily find is on the mailing list here indicating that there is a version of Explor for UNIX on a 1977 tape here (in the 1/explor+dl directory): https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377.tar.gz > > Does anyone know if there is continuity here or if the V2 reference and the code on the tape are only related in that they're both for Explor? > > - Matt G.