[TUHS] Question about finding curses to build on v7
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Wed Jun 12 03:26:44 AEST 2019
Interesting and that sounds quite plausible. CCA sold it at one point.
Masscomp (because Steve was working for us) got a license and a
redistribution license. IIRC: we could redistribute the binary for free
as long as CCA got Steve's changes back.
Steve definitely did the terminfo/lib work for CCA Emacs at Masscomp, as I
had pointed out that AT&T was moving to terminfo but was locking it up
inside of the System V (AT&T 'consider it standard' stuff - much to a
number of their own people telling them not too). Pavel ?? Curtis I think
?? - I've forgotten his last name - had written a new uncontaminated
version at Cornell that was a functional replacement and that could read
the AT&T ASCII database and compile them properly. (I don't remember if
Pavel's version could take the AT&T binary versions). I had obtained
Pavel's version and we were shipping that as our terminfo/lib
implementation on the Masscomp boxes and were switching our code to use it,
as we had not yet signed a System V license and were shipping on a System
III based one. Steve started to include Pavel's library in the CCA
version, which he got from me.
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:12 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> Clem Cole wrote:
> > 1.) Zimmerman EMACS (a.k.a. CCA EMACS) ran on the PDP-11 originally
> > when Steve wrote it at MIT.
>
> I have this on the origin of Montgomery and Zimmerman Emacs:
>
> "[Montgomery's] emacs implementation was begun in 1979, after having
> left MIT. I made it freely available to people INSIDE of Bell Labs,
> and it was widely used. It was never officially "released" from Bell
> Labs."
>
> "Unfortunately, several copies did get out during that time, mainly
> due to people who left Bell Labs to return to school or gave copies to
> friends. When Zimmerman modified one of those copies as the original
> basis for CCA emacs, AT&T and CCA had a prolonged debate over it.
> Eventually the matter was resolved when Zimmerman replaced the last of
> my code"
>
>
> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/Usenet/net.emacs/btl-emacs-2.txt
>
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