editor_history.txt (5092B)
1 From: Eric Fischer <enf@pobox.com> 2 Newsgroups: alt.os.multics,alt.folklore.computers 3 Message-ID: <8utbrm$apg$1@bob.news.rcn.net> 4 Subject: Re: emacs and other editors 5 Date: 15 Nov 2000 06:52:38 GMT 6 7 Joachim Pense <joachim_pense@hotmail.com> wrote: 8 9 > And, finally, what is the historical relation of qed(x)/ted to the Unix zoo 10 > of editors (ed/ex/vi/sed...)? 11 12 What appears below looks dangerously Mentifex-like, but I assure you 13 it is actually supposed to represent a vi-centric family tree of editors. 14 Links that I can't prove but want to believe are shown as question marks. 15 16 There are undoubtedly errors and omissions, so if anyone can correct any 17 of these I would appreciate it. 18 19 eric 20 21 Colossal Typewriter 22 by John McCarthy and Roland 23 Silver for the PDP-1 | Photon typesetter 24 ? | editors by Michael 25 ? \ Barnett & Kalon 26 Expensive Typewriter CREATE/EDIT \ Kelley for TECO 27 for PDP-1 by Steve Piner for CTSS \ IBM 704 for PDP-1 28 / | / | \ \__ \ by Dan Murphy 29 / | / | \ \ \ | 30 * Expensive Typewriter editors EDITS | MEMO/MODIFY | | VEDIT | 31 for PDP-1, improved for by Arthur | by Leslie | | by Victor | 32 by Peter Deutsch PDP-4, Samuel | Lowry / | Yngve | 33 | PDP-5/8 for CTSS \ for CTSS / _/ for PDP-6 34 | ? \_ \ | / _/ CTSS TECO by 35 QED ? \_ \ | / / / Greenblatt, 36 for Berkeley SDS-940 ? \ \ | | | / Holloway, 37 by Deutsch and LINED TYPSET for CTSS and Nelson 38 Butler Lampson for PDP-6 by Jerry Saltzer ? | | 39 / \ | | | ? | | 40 / \ | PDP-7/9 editor | ? DEC | 41 QED, * QED | | ? TECO | 42 as published for CTSS | ????????????????|??? | 43 in CACM by Ken Thompson | ?? | ITS 44 | | | ? ED (and EDL, EDA, EDB) TECO 45 | | STOPGAP for CTSS / | 46 | QED for PDP-10 | / / 47 | for Multics by Bill Weiher | / | 48 | by Ken Thompson | edit | | 49 | / \ SOS for Multics | | 50 | / \ for PDP-10 by Charles Garman | | 51 | qedx QED by Steve | ___/ | 52 | for Multics for GCOS Savitzky | / EMACS 53 | by Dennis Ritchie ? edm / in TECO 54 | | ? for Multics / by RMS et al. 55 QUIDS | ? / / | | 56 by George Coulouris * ed ? _____/ / | | 57 et al. for PDP-7 Unix ? / / | | 58 | by Ken Thompson ? | / | | 59 | | ? ZED/DOC / Multics | 60 | | ? by Vaughan / EMACS | 61 | ed ? Pratt / by Bernard | 62 | for Unix ? in TECO / Greenberg | 63 | (various versions) ? | / | / 64 | | ? | / \ / 65 | | ? | / GNU Emacs 66 \ ed ? / / 67 \ for Unix v6 ? / / 68 \ / | \ ? / / 69 \ / other eds | ? / / 70 em (UCLA?) | ? / / 71 Unix ed with additions | | ? | / 72 from George Coulouris \ | ? | / 73 | | \__ | | ? | / 74 | | \__ | | ? | / 75 other | ex (v1) | / 76 em | Unix ed with additions / / 77 variants | by Bill Joy and Charles / / 78 DED Haley / / 79 by Richard Bornat, | / / 80 Harold Thimbleby ex (v2) / / 81 Unix ed with additions 82 by Bill Joy 83 | 84 ex/vi (v3) 85 extended by Mark Horton 86 87