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The canonical location of the jargon file is at jargon-file.org, which contains not just ESR's jargon-file, but also pre-ESR versions. Apparently he ripped a lo
by fao_ 7y ago
The canonical location of the jargon file is at jargon-file.org, which contains not just ESR's jargon-file, but also pre-ESR versions. Apparently he ripped a lot out that represented LISP and ITS culture, and spun some of the political aspects of it to conform more to his taste.
"rc-file" does not seem to be present pre-ESR, however: https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.0.3.dos.txt https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.0.3.dos.txt
- gumby 7y agoBecause we didn’t have any Unix systems at MIT while that collection of terms was assembled. I think the first unix system I saw at the LCS was around 80 or 81. The gnu project was developed on a vax running Unix that somehow had been installed at the AI lab. Nobody used it so RMS decided to use it as a development machine. We had our own OSes, languages, and hardware and at that point in time Unix offered significantly less power for a large investment of effort.
- GeorgeTirebiter 7y agoLCS ran a pdp-11/45 in 1974 that was used to teach lisp. I don't believe it ran unix, but it definitely was multi-user.
- gumby 7y agoI think it was probably RSTS/E. There were other pdp-11s like the KTV or XGP machines. There might have been Unix machines someplace (MIT is a big place) I just meant that never saw any, and in particular around where quux was assembling the jargon file.
- jis 7y agoNope. It ran an in-house OS named "Delphi". There was a PDP 11/45 at LCS and a PDP 11/40 in building 38 used to teach 6.031 (the predecessor of 6.001).