The XSI Curses standard issued by X/Open is explicitly and closely modeled on System V. ===curses=== The first curses library was developed at the University of California at Berkeley, for a BSD operating system, around 1980 to support Rogue, a text-based adventure game.
However, due to AT&T policy regarding source-code distribution, this improved curses library did not have much acceptance in the BSD community. ===pcurses=== Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986. ===ncurses=== The pcurses library was further improved when Zeyd Ben-Halim took over the development effort in late 1991.
However, due to AT&T policy regarding source-code distribution, this improved curses library did not have much acceptance in the BSD community. ===pcurses=== Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986. ===ncurses=== The pcurses library was further improved when Zeyd Ben-Halim took over the development effort in late 1991.
However, due to AT&T policy regarding source-code distribution, this improved curses library did not have much acceptance in the BSD community. ===pcurses=== Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986. ===ncurses=== The pcurses library was further improved when Zeyd Ben-Halim took over the development effort in late 1991.
The new library was released as ncurses in November 1993, with version 1.8.1 as the first major release.
Since 1996, it has been maintained by Thomas E.
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