25 May
2024
25 May
'24
10:13 p.m.
Hi Clem,
At 2024-05-25T12:06:27-0400, Clem Cole wrote:
Ken [Arnold] was working in Ing70 [he was part of the
Ingres group] -
IngVax did not yet exist,
That does complicate my simplistic story. Ing70 was, then, as you noted
in a previous mail, an 11/70, but it _wasn't_ running Version 7 Unix,
but rather something with various bits of BSD (also in active
development, I reckon). Nevertheless, I venture, the first officially
distributed curses was in 4BSD, a VAX-only release. But, it stands to
reason that BSD curses never got far from its -11-portable roots; it
must have been obvious that the library would be desired on such hosts
and the CSRG came to officially support it thus in 2.9BSD 3 years later.
Hmm. I'll have to chew on how to recast that economically.
Thanks for all the light you're throwing on this!
Regards,
Branden