10 Nov
2015
10 Nov
'15
4:12 a.m.
My recollection matches Clem's - I was there and I thought Eric wrote
"more".
Dan was definitely there and he might have done the first version, but
I don't recall that. I do recall the story about MIT, and I sure that
ITS was the inspiration. And I recall Eric noting the space bar was
the "next page" key (as opposed to Return which other programs
expected) because it's the biggest key on the keyboard.
I can't take credit for pulling libtermcap (originally libtermlib) out
of vi, Bill Joy had already done that before I took on vi and termcap.
Mary Ann
Quoting Clem cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>:
Interesting. If I run Into Eric any time soon
I'll have to ask him.
As I recall I don't remember Dan's version but I do remember Eric's.
Nor do I remember Geoff hacking on it. Plus if you look at the CSRG
db from Kirk, the DB shows Eric as the creator. What's more Dan's
name is not in the man page - Eric's is.
I wonder if this is a case where Dan wrote something specific for
the ADM's and the 11s and Eric did something similar more general
around the sametime. FWIW: Eric had always claimed to me that he
wrote it and it is my memory that I got the sources from him for our
systems in the CAD group in Cory hall (and have never had a reason
to doubt him in that claim).
I do remember more(1) was was one of the first programs that used
Hortons termcap library that he had pulled out of joy's vi and
greatly enhanced. (Ken) Arnold then took it and created curses (for
Rogue actually).