18 Nov
2018
18 Nov
'18
11:01 a.m.
Donald ODona wrote:
its based on TekInfo, whereas 'Tek'
allegedly refers to the
anachronistic Tape Editor and Corrector, developed by a student (Dan
Murphy) in 1964 on a PDP-1 without a operation system. According to
the myth TekInfo was build on top of the Tape Editor, and finally made
it on *NIX.
Murphy's editor is called TECO:
http://tenex.opost.com/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf
I never heard of TekInfo, or a connection between TECO and INFO. Where
does this myth come from?
I'm not sure exactly how INFO in ITS evolved. Maybe it was a separate
program at first, but the latest version is an application written on
top of EMACS.