[TUHS] Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix?

[Clem Cole]

Oh how I hate history rewrites.  Job control was developed by Kulp on V7 in
Europe and MIT.  Joy saw it and added it what would become 4BSD.

The others were all developed on V7 (PDP11)at UCB.  They were not back
ported either. The vax work inherited them from V7.

It is true, The public tended to see these as 4BSD features as that was the
vehicle that got larger distribution.

Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual


On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 07:03:48PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson 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?
>
> "In particular, the C shell, curses, termcap, vi and job control were
> ported back to Version 7 (and later System III) so that it was not
> unusual to find these features on otherwise pure Bell releases."
> from Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix_v2.pdf
>
> in some v7ish distributions: unisoft, xenix, nu machine, venix?
>
> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf pg 437
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up
>
>
> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Software_Development_1982.pdf
> pg 580
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopment1982_27714599/page/n579/mode/2up
>
> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf pg 412
>
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up
>
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