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Article #753Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10
From: fw... Fred Webb
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 15:30
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 15:30
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In article <1215@kl-cs.UUCP> jona...@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: >Now here's a question for all you trivia merchants. There was another >editor of the DEC-10 I used called SOS. It stood for 'Son Of Stopcat' >I believe. What or Who was 'Stopcat'? The way I heard it, SOS stood for Son Of Stopgap. Apparently, Stopgap was a quick and dirty editor somebody (maybe at Stanford?) wrote, that was intended to be used only until a better editor was written. Stopgap didn't last, but SOS was written and used as an editor throughout the life of the PDP-10. I believe that Dec's patching programs used SOS to perform source changes, and that the OS upgrade process used SOS as one of the tools in a procedure to merge locally made changes with the Dec's changes. (Everybody had source, and everybody made changes. Without some systematic procedure for merging updates, nobody would have used the later versions of the OS.) -- Fred
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!bbn!bbn.com!fwebb From: fw...@bbn.com (Fred Webb) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10 Message-ID: <50684@bbn.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 15:30:29 GMT References: <1990Jan9.135247.894@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1215@kl-cs.UUCP> Sender: ne...@bbn.COM Reply-To: fw...@BBN.COM (Fred Webb) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 18 Posted: Wed Jan 10 16:30:29 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit