8 Dec
2022
8 Dec
'22
8:24 p.m.
Good day all, this may be COFF instead, but I'm not joined over there yet, might need
some Warren help/approval.
In any case, received that 3B20S 4.1 manual in good shape, unpacked it, and out fell a
little tri-fold titled "The Office Automation System (OAS) Editor-Formatter (ef)
Reference Card" emblazoned with the usual Bell Laboratories, non-disclosure note abut
the Bell System, and a nice little picture of a terminal I can't identify as well as
the full manual for this OAS leaning against it: "The Office Automation System
(OAS)" with a nice big Bell logo at the bottom of the spine.
The latter is likely a manual I spotted in a video once and couldn't make out the
name/title at the time, thought I was seeing another long-lost UNIX manual. I've
never heard of this before, and Google isn't turning up much as Office Automation
System appears to be a general industry term.
I seem to recall hearing about ef itself once or twice, some sort of pre-vi screen editor
from Bell methinks? Not super familiar with it though, I just seem to recall reading
about that before somewhere.
Anywho, dealing with a move in the near future that is hopefully into a home I own, so
pretty distracted from that scanning I keep talking about, but hopefully when I'm
settled in in a few months I can setup a proper scan bench in my new place and really go
to town on things.
- Matt G.
8 Dec
8 Dec
9:03 p.m.
when it matters, i was a part of the OAS team. i was technical lead, cathie brooks was our
supervisor,
and i can’t really remember the other folks. i wrote ef. it was not my proudest
programming achievement.
but denis ritchie helped me out by being a test user.
andrew
On Dec 8, 2022, at 12:24 PM, segaloco via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Good day all, this may be COFF instead, but I'm not joined over there yet, might
need some Warren help/approval.
In any case, received that 3B20S 4.1 manual in good shape, unpacked it, and out fell a
little tri-fold titled "The Office Automation System (OAS) Editor-Formatter (ef)
Reference Card" emblazoned with the usual Bell Laboratories, non-disclosure note abut
the Bell System, and a nice little picture of a terminal I can't identify as well as
the full manual for this OAS leaning against it: "The Office Automation System
(OAS)" with a nice big Bell logo at the bottom of the spine.
The latter is likely a manual I spotted in a video once and couldn't make out the
name/title at the time, thought I was seeing another long-lost UNIX manual. I've
never heard of this before, and Google isn't turning up much as Office Automation
System appears to be a general industry term.
I seem to recall hearing about ef itself once or twice, some sort of pre-vi screen editor
from Bell methinks? Not super familiar with it though, I just seem to recall reading
about that before somewhere.
Anywho, dealing with a move in the near future that is hopefully into a home I own, so
pretty distracted from that scanning I keep talking about, but hopefully when I'm
settled in in a few months I can setup a proper scan bench in my new place and really go
to town on things.
- Matt G.
12 Dec
12 Dec
6:38 a.m.
regrettably, i do not recall this.
as far as i could guess,i simply went with a short name
and most likely e stood for editor.
On Dec 11, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Ralph Corderoy
<ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Hi andrew,
i wrote ef.
Was its name from ed → ee → ef or something else?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
4:10 p.m.
The quadfold itself lists "Editor-Formatter" as the expansion.
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 10:38 PM, Andrew Hume <andrew(a)humeweb.com> wrote:
regrettably, i do not recall this.
as far as i could guess,i simply went with a short name
and most likely e stood for editor.
> On Dec 11, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Ralph Corderoy ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk wrote:
>
> Hi andrew,
>
> > i wrote ef.
>
> Was its name from ed → ee → ef or something else?
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
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