Hi, Inspired by Benjamin's rather nice OS/archaeology presentation[1] I was reading a piece[2] by Carl Reed (CTO of the OGC) about his work on MOSS GIS from the late 70s - early 80s while at the US FWS. MOSS was a vector GIS [and Carl claims the first interactive user GIS] & early GRASS [several years later, but there was some overlap] was primarily a raster GIS so I don't think there would be much code overlap*. None the less, the two names demonstrate a clear influence in the tradition of pine/elm, pico/nano, less/more and certain ideas+terminology seem to be inherited such as "mapsets".
[1] ftp://88.208.250.116/ducke-frankfurt-foss-gis-arch.pdf [2] http://www.scribd.com/cnreed [*] but v.out.moss in GRASS 5 was written by MOSS developers, maybe some SDTS stuff too? just curious: was "GRASS" just cheeky naming by a competing US Gov't GIS team or was there tangled roots in the early days? Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user