Athletes! The memories! I used ITS over the ARPANET, for access to macsyma.

So different from Titan's online system....

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On 4 Jul 2018, 23:33, at 23:33, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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>  > 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.
>
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>Dr Richard Stallman
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>Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)