11 Jun
2019
11 Jun
'19
11:12 p.m.
I thought much of the exptools went into something whos name was like the
AT&T Unix Toolkit Library (that Summit maintained). It was subscription
oriented (you paid per tool, but had an unlimited license for it). This
was how Korn Shell for $2K and a few other things made it out of Bell - I
think that eventually, ditroff was moved there instead of being a separate
distribution. I've now forgotten many of the details - there was a
build/make replacement IIRC that was there also, many of the Jerq tools and
games like GBACA and some others were in there. Thinking about it much of
the support for Jerq (68000) and Teletype version (BLIT/We32000) may have
been in the Toolkit library.
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:03 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Mary Ann
Horton
Warren's emacs would have been part of the
Bell Labs 'exptools'
(experimental tools) package ... it's possible that's what you have.
I don't think so; Warren had been a grad student in our group, and we got
it
on that basis. I'm pretty sure we didn't have termcap or any of that stuff.
Noel