[TUHS] earliest Unix roff
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Sep 17 08:05:53 AEST 2019
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
> > However, please note that more(1) also was inspired by, almost
> > copied from, ITS. Certainly the prompt --More-- is.
>
> Absolutely. A friend of mine/fellow UCB grad student, Eric Shienbrood,
> wrote it. He was a MIT undergrad. And Eric happily said it was modeled
> from ITS. And before, Eric wrote it, UNIX lacked anything like it.
> Which to me is fine, taking an idea from another system to add a new
> feature that is lacking.
Am I the only one who remembers the old "pg" program? It seems to have
disappeared.
-- Dave
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