24 May
2018
24 May
'18
3:35 p.m.
On Thu, 24 May 2018, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
I'm curious about the history of "top".
As far as I can see, the first
version was written by William LeFebvre and posted to net.sources in
1984. I'm surprised it appeared that late. Were there any other
versions or similar Unix programs before that?
My memory is failing me, but I seem to recall that here in Oz we had a
similar program, possibly written by Piers Lauder? Or IanJ?
It was called "ss" or something, for "system status", and I dimly
recall
modifying it (or suggesting same) to show the hostname.
-- Dave