[TUHS] Question about finding curses to build on v7
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Tue Jun 11 23:43:42 AEST 2019
Two more thoughts...
1.) Zimmerman EMACS (a.k.a. CCA EMACS) ran on the PDP-11 originally when
Steve wrote it at MIT. It's the closest to the original ITS/PDP-10 emacs
of all the originals that I knew. I'm pretty sure he converted it to
Pavel's freely available terminfo implementation at some point (when he was
at Masscomp), but I think the original Zimmerman code has screwed down
terminal support to a couple of terminals that were used at MIT. I've
lost track of Steve, but I'll see if I can find you an email by reaching
out on an Alumni list.
2.) I believe the first (joy created) termcap was in 2BSD but I don't think
Arnold and Horton had started to pull the curses library out of vi yet. I
think termcap itself had been but Mary Ann would be more authoritative than
I. Check out the 2BSD, 3BSD, and 4BSD releases and look for the earliest
versions. The C compiler is pretty much the same in all cases (the only
issue I can think is that by 3BSD folks at UCB had removed dmr's 7
character variable limit), but I think curses should compile without too
much issue on a virgin dmr V7 compiler.
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:20 AM <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> The other early "emacs" we ran before switching to gosmacs was
> JOVE--Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs.
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