[SIGCIS-Members] Is Unix racist?

[Al Kossow]

On 8/18/15 7:59 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> 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.
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> peek and poke were microcomputer additions
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> 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.
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> RSTS BASIC on the PDP-11 had many of the same extensions which carried
> forward into DEC's other implementations of the language.
>

I found a collection of BASIC users manuals for many different systems 
in the CHM archives a while back, so bitsavers.org has a collection of
many of them filed by manufacturer. I had been researching where the
language changes originated from for a paper, which I never finished.