From: John ff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:03:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ec6ad39-23b5-4d9c-8e7d-8ef1fd28b03c@codemist.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1faqKY-0004DT-P3@fencepost.gnu.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1057 bytes --]
Athletes! The memories! I used ITS over the ARPANET, for access to macsyma.
So different from Titan's online system....
Sent from Blue
On 4 Jul 2018, 23:33, at 23:33, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > I had no exposure to ITS and so have no knowledge of its history
> > or the tools that it offered. Was TECO truly its first editor?
>
>Yes. PDP-10 TECO came before ITS.
>
>The PDP-10 was an upward-compatible improvement of the PDP-6.
>The AI lab first got a PDP-6 and wrote a TECO for it.
>
>The PDP-6 was not suitable for timesharing. So when it got the
>PDP-10, people immediately used TECO on that too, but they also wrote
>ITS.
>
>--
>Dr Richard Stallman
>President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
>Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1570 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-04 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 13:25 "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-03 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-03 14:37 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-03 20:16 ` John Yates
2018-07-03 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 12:13 ` John Yates
2018-07-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-04 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-04 22:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 23:03 ` John ff [this message]
2018-07-04 2:27 ` Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-04 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-04 6:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-04 14:52 ` Drew Adams
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=7ec6ad39-23b5-4d9c-8e7d-8ef1fd28b03c@codemist.co.uk \
--to=jpff@codemist.co.uk \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.