No, that the same Steve Zimmerman was (is) and MIT type (he is also the 'Zimmerman' of EMACS fame.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:04 AM Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
Funny, when Steve Zimmerman was at Masscomp, one of the things he did was put the ITS style 'more' into the TTY driver (along with Tenex style ^T)

Did Steve go to UofMD?  They were big on those things.  (I seem to recall a patch adding it to Pyramid)