[SIGCIS-Members] Is Unix racist?

[Al Kossow]

On 8/18/15 6:11 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul wrote:
> Who came up with those
> changes?—it may have been at DEC for the PDP-11.
>

peek and poke were microcomputer additions

The string editing things were additions from Tymshare for Super BASIC
on the SDS 940. I was told Super BASIC's extensions on the Harvard TSS
940 system was the influence for those functions in Micro-Soft BASIC.

RSTS BASIC on the PDP-11 had many of the same extensions which carried
forward into DEC's other implementations of the language.