17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
4:05 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
Am I the only one who remembers the old "pg" program? It seems to have
disappeared.
-- Dave
However,
please note that more(1) also was inspired by, almost
copied from, ITS. Certainly the prompt --More-- is.
Absolutely. A friend of mine/fellow UCB grad student, Eric Shienbrood,
wrote it. He was a MIT undergrad. And Eric happily said it was modeled
from ITS. And before, Eric wrote it, UNIX lacked anything like it.
Which to me is fine, taking an idea from another system to add a new
feature that is lacking.