[TUHS] screen editors, Where/when did TUIs come from

[John R Levine]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>>> At Yale we had one called "e" that ran on our early bitmap terminals.
>
> Wasn't this related (somehow) to what was called the RAND editor?

Yes.  The same people went from Yale to RAND and then started Interactive. 
INed may have used code from the RAND editor, even if not, it was written 
by the same guy and worked much the same.

> I remember using "e" on IS/1, a V6 derivative on the PDP-11, in
> the 1980-81 time frame.  I don't know if it was hardwired for a
> particular terminal or not.

Interactive sold OEM terminals but I don't recall whether the editor also 
worked on other devices.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly