14 Nov
2019
14 Nov
'19
4:53 a.m.
On Nov 13, 2019, at 10:16, Thomas Paulsen
<thomas.paulsen(a)firemail.de> wrote:
'T'was before my time, but the legend has it that the original BLISS-10
bootstrap compiler was a set of TECO macros that Chuck Geschke (Adobe's
founder) wrote.'
Really? TECO = Tape Editor and Corrector
Yes, and the TAPE in the mnemonic is paper tape.
In an former live we once had a text formatter running on OS/8
(pdp-8) written in TECO.
jaap