gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) (07/23/83)
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