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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin)
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Subject: Peek & Poke: the real story
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Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 23:47:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 23:47:23 1983
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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.)

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