[TUHS] Montgomery's emacs
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Wed Jun 12 03:55:42 AEST 2019
Reading Lar's emacs thread refilled the memory cache: s/Toolkit/ToolChest/
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:12 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> I thought much of the exptools went into something whos name was like the
> AT&T Unix Toolkit Library (that Summit maintained). It was subscription
> oriented (you paid per tool, but had an unlimited license for it). This
> was how Korn Shell for $2K and a few other things made it out of Bell - I
> think that eventually, ditroff was moved there instead of being a separate
> distribution. I've now forgotten many of the details - there was a
> build/make replacement IIRC that was there also, many of the Jerq tools and
> games like GBACA and some others were in there. Thinking about it much of
> the support for Jerq (68000) and Teletype version (BLIT/We32000) may have
> been in the Toolkit library.
> ᐧ
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:03 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > From: Mary Ann Horton
>>
>> > Warren's emacs would have been part of the Bell Labs 'exptools'
>> > (experimental tools) package ... it's possible that's what you have.
>>
>> I don't think so; Warren had been a grad student in our group, and we got
>> it
>> on that basis. I'm pretty sure we didn't have termcap or any of that
>> stuff.
>>
>> Noel
>>
>
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