On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 18:56 +0100, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: > So there's clear proof that at least three companies in the UK were > using the term IDE before (or at least by) 1990. I never heard it > called anything else in that timeframe.
That pretty much matches my recollection also. The earliest use I can find of the "AT Attachment" terminology is the X3T9 project proposal from late 1990 which eventually led to the formation of the X3T10 group: http://www.t10.org/ftp/x3t9.2/document.90/90-058r2.txt p.