7 Oct
2018
7 Oct
'18
6:07 a.m.
Hi All.
I am starting to collect, if possible, different versions of the QED
editor; with a hope to put up a git repo.
If you have a tarball of code, please send it to me with as much info
about it as you have. I would like to track down the qedbuf(1) man page
also.
I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball from him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.
Much thanks!
Arnold
10:23 a.m.
Arnold wrote:
What was the name of the editor which George Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College (then
Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary, University of London)? “e”?
Arrigo
I am starting to collect, if possible, different
versions of the QED
editor; with a hope to put up a git repo.
Very good! Editors need preservation too.
Anyone curious about Pratt's ZED aka DOC? 
12:33 p.m.
At 7 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000 (+00:00) from Arrigo Triulzi <a
target="_blank"rrigo(a)alchemistowl.org>stowl.org>:
What was the name of the editor which George Coulouris
wrote at Queen Mary College (then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary, University of
London)? “e”?
em.
http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/
Arrigo
12:46 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Donald ODona wrote:
At 7 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000 (+00:00) from Arrigo
Triulzi <a target="_blank"rrigo(a)alchemistowl.org>stowl.org>:
When I think of "e", I think of IBM's text editor, which I had on one of
my XTs before it became part of PC DOS 6.1.
-uso.
What was the name of the editor which George
Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College (then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary,
University of London)? “e”?
em.
http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/
Arrigo
1:20 p.m.
IBM bundled it in with OS/2 Warp. I forget if the edlin was a family API app.
Now that edlin is MIT licensed I guess it may live on
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Sent: Sunday, 7 October 2018 8:56 PM
To: Donald ODona
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Software Archeology: QED
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Donald ODona wrote:
At 7 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000 (+00:00) from Arrigo
Triulzi <a target="_blank"rrigo(a)alchemistowl.org>stowl.org>:
When I think of "e", I think of IBM's text editor, which I had on one of
my XTs before it became part of PC DOS 6.1.
-uso.
What was the name of the editor which George
Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College (then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary,
University of London)? “e”?
em.
http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/
Arrigo
12:52 p.m.
On 7 Oct 2018, at 14:33, Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com> wrote:
At 7 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000 (+00:00) from Arrigo Triulzi <a
target="_blank"rrigo(a)alchemistowl.org>stowl.org>:
Ah, thank you.
Arrigo
What was the name of the editor which George
Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College (then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary,
University of London)? “e”?
em.
http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/ 
8 Oct
8 Oct
10:18 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 02:52:34PM +0200, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
On 7 Oct 2018, at 14:33, Donald ODona
<mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com> wrote:
I tried the "modernised" version of em by Pierre Gaston a few months
back, and unfortunately it crashes repreatedly on some em-specific
commands. I shall look deeper, but it would be nice to have a
functioning version... ;)
HND
KatolaZ
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At 7 Oct 2018 11:01:11 +0000 (+00:00) from Arrigo Triulzi <a
target="_blank"rrigo(a)alchemistowl.org>stowl.org>:
Ah, thank you.
What was the name of the editor which George
Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College (then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary,
University of London)? “e”?
em.
http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/ 
7 Oct
7 Oct
4:41 p.m.
On 10/7/2018 6:23 AM, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
I remember when digging for the speak.c/h stuff in the v6_doc disk pack
image, there were incomplete fragments of an editor (restricted ed? ed?)
source code in there, earlier than any version of the source code I
could find at the time, so that might be interesting to dig into as well.
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jgevaryahu(a)hotmail.com
Arnold
wrote:
What was the name of the editor which George Coulouris wrote at Queen Mary College
(then Queen Mary and Westfield, now Queen Mary, University of London)? “e”?
Arrigo
.
I am starting to collect, if possible, different
versions of the QED
editor; with a hope to put up a git repo.
Very good! Editors need preservation too.
Anyone curious about Pratt's ZED aka DOC?
12:41 p.m.
At 7 Oct 2018 06:08:57 +0000 (+00:00) from arnold(a)skeeve.com:
I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball from
him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.
there is already a git repo at https://github.com/chneukirchen/qed-caltech
Then se, a very ed like screen editor:
http://se-editor.org/
https://github.com/screen-editor/se
2:11 p.m.
Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com> wrote:
At 7 Oct 2018 06:08:57 +0000 (+00:00) from
arnold(a)skeeve.com:
Thanks, I'll take a look at that too.
I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball
from him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.
there is already a git repo at https://github.com/chneukirchen/qed-caltech Then se, a very ed like screen editor:
http://se-editor.org/
https://github.com/screen-editor/se
I'm quite familiar with this. I'm the one who posted the original C version
of se to comp.sources.unix > 30 years ago. :-)
It's quite ironic. To get se going on Unix I had to learn vi. Then
vi became hardwired into my finger ROMs such that I didn't feel like
going back to using se.
se is derived from the Software Tools Ratfor editor, so it's an ed
clone, not based on Unix ed code.
Arnold
3:41 p.m.
At 7 Oct 2018 14:16:56 +0000 (+00:00) from arnold(a)skeeve.com:
Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com> wrote:
I know that. se has somewhat limited regexp
syntax, but otherwise is a nice editor. You'll wonder but I'm still using it
occasionally.
At 7 Oct 2018 06:08:57 +0000 (+00:00) from
arnold@skeeve.
It's quite ironic. To get se going on Unix I had to learn vi.
Then
vi became hardwired into my finger ROMs such that I didn't feel like
going back to using se.
se is derived from the Software Tools Ratfor editor, so it's an ed
clone, not based on Unix ed code. 
3:52 p.m.
arnold(a)skeeve.com writes:
Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com> wrote:
Yep, that's mine.
I tried contacting David Tilbrook several times and got no replies.
I think some people around Toronto still use qed, but they seem to be
very secretive about it.
hth,
--
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At 7 Oct 2018 06:08:57 +0000 (+00:00) from
arnold(a)skeeve.com:
Thanks, I'll take a look at that too. I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball
from him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.
there is already a git repo at https://github.com/chneukirchen/qed-caltech 
5:11 p.m.
I'm asking around for 940, CTSS, and Multics
versions of QED.
CTSS QED is here:
https://github.com/rcornwell/ctss/tree/master/src/edit
8 Oct
8 Oct
3:21 a.m.
I'm asking around for 940, CTSS, and Multics
versions of QED.
QED for the 940 timesharing system might appear later.
Multics QEDX:
https://ban.ai/~jhj/misc/qedx/
7 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
I would like to track down the qedbuf(1) man page
also.
Not sure if that is different that qedbufs.1 (with an "s").
It is in two usenix sets:
usenix79+80/boulder/caltech/doc/qedbufs.1
usenix_80_delaware/boulder/caltech/doc/qedbufs.1
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Shoppa_Tapes/
25 Oct
25 Oct
6:56 a.m.
just to mention the strange alien lisp machine, desktop environment, operation system,
church of emacs in all known flavors:
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
At 7 Oct 2018 06:08:57 +0000 (+00:00) from arnold(a)skeeve.com:
Hi All.
I am starting to collect, if possible, different versions of the QED
editor; with a hope to put up a git repo.
If you have a tarball of code, please send it to me with as much info
about it as you have. I would like to track down the qedbuf(1) man page
also.
I have contacted Rob Pike and got one tarball from him. I have another
tarball that I got sometime in 1987 and have a promise of code coming
Donald Mitchell.
Much thanks!
Arnold
4:09 p.m.
Donald ODona wrote:
just to mention the strange alien lisp machine,
desktop environment,
operation system, church of emacs in all known flavors:
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
Thanks.
Does anyone know what happened to SINE? Or the MagicSix operating
system for that matter; maybe a sibling to Unix? (To somehow try to
make this on topic.)
9:15 p.m.
In addition to SINE, does anyone know what happened to EINE?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:10 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Donald ODona wrote:
just to mention the strange alien lisp machine,
desktop environment,
operation system, church of emacs in all known flavors:
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
Thanks.
Does anyone know what happened to SINE? Or the MagicSix operating
system for that matter; maybe a sibling to Unix? (To somehow try to
make this on topic.)
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