Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site microsoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!gordonl From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Peek & Poke: the real story Message-ID: <8642@microsoft.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 23:47:23 EDT Article-I.D.: microsof.8642 Posted: Fri Jul 22 23:47:23 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 05:19:26 EDT Organization: Microsoft Corporation Lines: 14 Peek and Poke originated from system calls in TOPS-10. These were put into tops-10 in a late series 4 or early series 5 release. It is possible that their use in a PDP-8 basic predates their use in the Pdp-10 monitor. I am not sure. TRON and TROFF were original with our basic as far as I know, but PEEK and POKE came form one of these sources. (it is true that I was at Harvard and used ECL a lot but that was not where I saw them.) Bill Gates Microsoft