Athletes! The memories! I used ITS over the ARPANET, for access to macsyma.
So different from Titan's online system....
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I had no exposure to ITS and so have no knowledge of its history
or the tools that it offered. Was TECO truly its first editor?
Yes. PDP-10 TECO came before ITS.
The PDP-10 was an upward-compatible improvement of the PDP-6.
The AI lab first got a PDP-6 and wrote a TECO for it.
The PDP-6 was not suitable for timesharing. So when it got the
PDP-10, people immediately used TECO on that too, but they also wrote
ITS.