From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jul 91 11:49:18 GMT From: trwacs!erwin@uunet.uu.net (Harry Erwin) Subject: Re: INFO-ADA Digest V91 #174 Message-ID: <320@trwacs.UUCP> List-Id: UN025523@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU ("James Burnell, WVU Comp/Ele Engr") writes: >INFO-ADA-REQUEST@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU( 21-JU writes: >>TECO was invented at MIT back in the 60's. I doubt you could >>find a running TECO any more, but it was widely available (from >>DECUS) on DEC PDP series machines as recently as 1980 at least. >>The original EMACS was written in TECO; in fact, the name stands >>for Editing MACroS, since EMACS was just a set of TECO macros >>for keeping the screen continuously updated. If you remember >>TECO, you're a Pretty Old Programmer (Not Real Old, but Pretty >>Old). Or maybe you just started young ... ;-) Both TECO and EMACS were in use at Norden Systems as late as 1987. I remember it well, being involved in maintaining it. I believe they are still available (and maybe even still maintained) at MIT. -- Harry Erwin Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com