18 May
2015
18 May
'15
5:01 p.m.
On Monday, May 18, 2015, markus schnalke <meillo(a)marmaro.de> wrote:
[2015-05-18 06:36] Doug McIlroy
<doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu <javascript:;>>
FreeBSD man page states it originated in System III. If you browse the
code of it, it is certainly there, but System III was a mix of various
versions, including PWB/UNIX.
Anyway, a very interesting research subject. Keep going!
--Andy
I believe cut/paste originated in PWB Unix, but I can't recall who
wrote it.
Thanks for your reply.
I checked the PWB code of bostic and spencer ...
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/usdl/
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1
... but couldn't find any signs of cut or paste there.