[TUHS] Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix?

[Rob Pike]

Reminds me of my typesetting story (search the list's archives for versatec
and vegents, that should find it.)

-rob


On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 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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