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FINE (FINE Is Not EMACS) text editor for TOPS-10, written by MikeKazar at C-MU in BLISS-10 in the early 1980's.Mike recently gave me permission to distribute FINE sources.Phil Budne 7/17/2002phil@ultimate.comNote; All files restored from backup saveset images read by backup10.Almost all files have original dates (exceptions noted below);================ C-MU files341,471/cmuold2/9/80version directly from CMU 2/80;Start of save set FROMCMUA on MTA000 System CMU10A 8.3/DEC 6.02A-VM TOPS-10 monitor 602A(14404) APR#10801600 BPI 9 track 9-Feb-80 00:03:07 BACKUP 2(216)-5 tape format 1solomon.foo7/27/80ftp'ed from CMU by Jon Solomon at Rutgers 27-Jul-80 16:04:55saveset written by TOPS-20 DUMPER in "interchange" format;no dates on files.================ University of New Orleans301,273/uno8/21/80see notes.uno dated Aug 21 1980 based on CMU version of 29-Jul-80Files from Jim (Nothead) Thomas at University of New Orleans================ Stevens Tech files301,273/f37/27/80301,273/f48/25/80301,273/me38/29/80301,273/me3b1/21/81 -- first version with terminal routines from MIT TECOStarted keeping revision history and edit number (in versn.mac) 2/81301,273/me48/27/81 v1B(1057)-7301,273/f11/1/81v1B(1060)-7intermediate versions for my endlessly mangled version at Stevens Tech(301,273/f is final Stevens version? 11/1/81 -- w/ a fix from AHM@DEC!================ DEC Marlborough31,5666/301273/f 12/13/81 v1B(1100)-7Alan Martin (AHM)'s version at DEC Marlboro(branched from above after may 1981)Final edit by me!31,5732/f7/25/83v1C(1130)-5My seperate version at DEC MarlboroMy observations;How hard it was to get anything done in those days. Even Barb admitsit was easier to write user programs on TOPS-20! I only attempted afew personal projects on TOPS-10 after getting to DEC and having achoice. But it was a tough row to hoe, I was always writing daemonsof one sort or another, but the guardians of KL1026 saw anythingrunning in user mode as a waste of cycles (Alan and I were clearlythird class citizens*, working on the FORTRAN-10/20 compiler (despitethe fact that it was probably the piece of DEC S/W that people boughtsystems to run (The best BASIC comming from U Penn Medical School).Second class citizenship was probably CUSP maintainers -- tools(MACRO and LINK) used by real men to make real code (the monitor).How much time we all spent reformatting code.How amazing that we lived without using source control!What an angry young man I was! The comments are well, positivelynasty at times! And I don't think I saw any about Alan's bosses atthe Stevens Computer Center, who were working on TECO (what ended upas TECO v200) -- I remember they stole FINE sources (mounted a privatepack to read the code) to figure out how it figured out how to doscreen updates using line insert/delete. Then they did a one-up, andused the same algorithms for character insert/delete as well (allcoded in MACRO, as real men were wont to). The screen updates wereenough to give you montion sickness, I remember GNU EMACS had asimilar effect on me when I first used it on slow lines...It seems we were all working on editors -- my freshman year roomateRich Braun had wrote his own from scratch....