eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) writes: > Correct me if I'm wrong; didn't terse start out on VM (pre-z)?
HUFF/PUFF predated terse (done in YKT on cms from the 70s) ... mentioned here http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=PACKED&ft=PROB some number of 1991 posts that mention applications/tools that should be part of every toolkit (including TERSE) http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=TOOLKIT&ft=MEMO 1994 post goes into some discussion of data compression APIs and TERSE mentioned here http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=ESAV2&ft=MEMO ... not on vmshare ... but earliest reference I have to using TERSE for package distributions on the internal network is 1985. -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html