24 May
2018
24 May
'18
6:14 a.m.
Hello,
I'm curious about the history of "top". As far as I can see, the first
version was written by William LeFebvre and posted to net.sources in
1984. I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other
versions or similar Unix programs before that?
Best regards,
Lars Brinkhoff
24 May
24 May
9:35 a.m.
On Thu, 24 May 2018, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
I'm curious about the history of "top".
As far as I can see, the first
version was written by William LeFebvre and posted to net.sources in
1984. I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other
versions or similar Unix programs before that?
My memory is failing me, but I seem to recall that here in Oz we had a
similar program, possibly written by Piers Lauder? Or IanJ?
It was called "ss" or something, for "system status", and I dimly
recall
modifying it (or suggesting same) to show the hostname.
-- Dave
10:58 a.m.
> I'm curious about the history of
"top". As far as I can see, the first
> version was written by William LeFebvre and posted to net.sources in
> 1984. I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other
> versions or similar Unix programs before that?
My memory is failing me, but I seem to recall that
here in Oz we had a
similar program, possibly written by Piers Lauder? Or IanJ?
It was called "ss" or something, for "system status", and I dimly
recall
modifying it (or suggesting same) to show the hostname.
BSD's systat is similar.
The current manpage says it was released in 4.3 BSD, but the copyright
notices in the code go back to 1980, with comments crediting "Bill Reeves
at Lucasfilm."
https://www.retro11.de/ouxr/211bsd/usr/src/ucb/PORT/systat/pigs.c.html
-Jason
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