TECO - Revision history

Jnc: Avoid redir

2025-04-13T06:10:49Z

Avoid redir

Jnc: /* External links */ +Pete Siemsen's TECO collection

2024-04-23T10:51:54Z

‎External links: +Pete Siemsen's TECO collection

Jnc: +TECO madness!

2024-01-14T02:11:29Z

+TECO madness!

Jnc: Add MIT PDP-11 version

2023-09-18T14:19:13Z

Add MIT PDP-11 version

Jnc: dab SAIL

2023-08-08T20:29:39Z

dab SAIL

Larsbrinkhoff: /* External links */ Link to PDP-6 memo 2, "TECO".

2021-09-12T16:49:28Z

‎External links: Link to PDP-6 memo 2, "TECO".

Larsbrinkhoff: Years; link to Murphy's article.

2021-09-12T16:47:51Z

Years; link to Murphy's article.

Larsbrinkhoff: Flesh out.

2021-09-08T10:32:23Z

Flesh out.

Jnc: +cat, +links

2018-12-18T15:39:47Z

+cat, +links

Larsbrinkhoff: Stub.

2018-02-12T09:46:02Z

Stub.

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Text editor. First written for a PDP-1 at MIT. Then ported to the AI Lab PDP-6, and for a long time the primary editor in [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].

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-'''TECO''' is a powerful but complex [[text editor]].  It was first written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[MIT]]'s [[Research Laboratory of Electronics]], and then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964; it was for a long time the primary editor on [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
+'''TECO''' is a powerful but complex [[text editor]].  It was first written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]'s [[Research Laboratory of Electronics]], and then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964. It was for a long time the primary editor on [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
 The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO"; TECO was also re-written for many other computers, and spread fairly widely. A version was written for the [[PDP-11]] (in [[MACRO-11]]) at MIT.
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 ==TECO humour==
-Dave Moon started a humorous term at MIT: 'TECO madness; a moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret'. (This is based on the tag-line from the old movie, ''Reefer Madness'': "A moment of bliss; a lifetime of regret!"). Obviously Moon had written some complicated TECO command string to perform some complex change, and gotten it wrong - and it promptly ate something he had spent a considerable time typing in.
+Dave Moon started a humorous term at MIT: 'TECO madness; a moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret'. (This is based on the tag-line from the old movie, ''Reefer Madness'': "A moment of bliss; a lifetime of regret!"). Obviously, Moon had written some complicated TECO command string to perform some complex change, and gotten it wrong - and it promptly ate something he had spent a considerable time typing in.
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 * [http://stuff.offog.org/its/news/1990-clements-sail-teco Clements' message to alt.folklore.computers]
 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/teco teco] - source for MIT V6 UNIX TECO
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-'''TECO''' is a [[text editor]].  First written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[MIT]]'s Research Laboratory of Electronics.  Then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964, and for a long time the primary editor in [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
+'''TECO''' is a powerful but complex [[text editor]].  It was first written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[MIT]]'s [[Research Laboratory of Electronics]], and then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964; it was for a long time the primary editor on [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
 The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO"; TECO was also re-written for many other computers, and spread fairly widely. A version was written for the [[PDP-11]] (in [[MACRO-11]]) at MIT.
 ==External links==
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 * [http://stuff.offog.org/its/news/1990-clements-sail-teco Clements' message to alt.folklore.computers]
 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/teco teco] - source for MIT V6 UNIX TECO
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 '''TECO''' is a [[text editor]].  First written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[MIT]]'s Research Laboratory of Electronics.  Then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964, and for a long time the primary editor in [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
-The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO".
+The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO"; TECO was also re-written for many other computers, and spread fairly widely. A version was written for the [[PDP-11]] (in [[MACRO-11]]) at MIT.
 ==External links==
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 * [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larsbrinkhoff/its-archives/master/ailab/pdp6-memo-2.pdf PDP-6 memo 2, "TECO 6"]
 * [http://stuff.offog.org/its/news/1990-clements-sail-teco Clements' message to alt.folklore.computers]
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 '''TECO''' is a [[text editor]].  First written 1962 for a [[PDP-1]] at [[MIT]]'s Research Laboratory of Electronics.  Then ported to the [[Project MAC]] [[PDP-6]] in 1964, and for a long time the primary editor in [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]].  [[EMACS]] was implemented using TECO's programming facilities.
-The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO".
+The standalone PDP-6 version was modified in 1966 by Bob Clements, while installing the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] PDP-6, to run on the [[DEC]] Monitor.  This evolved into DEC's "Standard TECO".
 ==External links==

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	* [https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf "The Beginnings of TECO", by Dan Murphy]		* [https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf "The Beginnings of TECO", by Dan Murphy]
		+	* [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larsbrinkhoff/its-archives/master/ailab/pdp6-memo-2.pdf PDP-6 memo 2, "TECO 6"]
	* [http://stuff.offog.org/its/news/1990-clements-sail-teco Clements' message to alt.folklore.computers]		* [http://stuff.offog.org/its/news/1990-clements-sail-teco Clements' message to alt.folklore.computers]

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