unix precursors

[Eric Fischer]

Lars Brinkhoff writes,

> How about ITS, did it influence Unix?

If nothing else, the "more" program began as a copy of an ITS feature.
And people think of emacs as a Unix program, but it came to Unix from
ITS and brought with it things like the "info" documentation format.

eric

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