[TUHS] Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix?

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sat May 25 10:46:19 AEST 2024


I’m traveling this weekend so I’m doing this by memory.  ISTR The original
curses was developed on Ing70 as part of Rogue and that It missed the 2BSD
tape by about a year.  See if you can find an early Rogue distribution and
I think you’ll find it there.  If not look in the early net news source
distributions.

Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm finding it difficult to find any direct sources on the question in
> the subject line.
>
> Does anyone here have any source material they can point me to
> documenting the existence of a port of BSD curses to Unix Version 7?
>
> I know that curses made it into 2.9BSD for the PDP-11, but that's not
> quite the same thing.
>
> There are comments in System V Release 2's curses.h file[1][2] (very
> different from 4BSD's[3]) that suggest some effort to accommodate
> Version 7's terminal driver.  So I would _presume_ that curses got
> ported to Version 7.  But that's System V, right when it started
> diverging from BSD curses, and moreover, presumption is not evidence.
>
> Even personal accounts/anecdotes would be helpful.  Maybe some of you
> _wrote_ curses applications for Version 7 machines.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
> [1] System III apparently did not have curses at all.  Both it and 4BSD
>     were released in 1980.  System V Release 1 doesn't seem to, either.
> [2]
> https://github.com/ryanwoodsmall/oldsysv/blob/master/sysvr2-vax/include/curses.h
> [3]
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/include/curses.h
>
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