11 Jun
2019
11 Jun
'19
5:02 p.m.
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
11 Jun
11 Jun
5:12 p.m.
New subject: Montgomery's emacs
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
5:28 p.m.
New subject: Montgomery's emacs
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> writes:
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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nmake ?? I think it may have been called. I touched something that
matches what is being called "exptools" and the like when I was at 6200
Broad St. We used nmake and ksh extensively in the software project I
was a part of, and I know I had access to the source for an ancient
version of nmake at one point. And I remember the subscription thing
too and I seem to recall you had to pay per architecture at least by the
time I was exposed to it. I got the ancient nmake version compiled on
HP-UX 10.x to get part of the product I was a part of building on HP-UX
10.x. The official HP-UX 10.x version from the subscription service was
expensive, as I remember things.
There was at least one person in the group who used a version of emacs
that was from the same, or related, source. I never used it, as I
preferred GNU emacs.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
5:55 p.m.
New subject: Montgomery's emacs
Reading Lar's emacs thread refilled the memory cache: s/Toolkit/ToolChest/
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:12 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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.
ᐧ
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
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