From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:53:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1c39252ff40e430ed766f3577080890@vitanuova.com> (raw)
>>Systems like TOPS-10 had a nifty feature whereby one could start
>>a job on one terminal, detach the terminal, and log in elsewhere
>>and reconnect to the detached job. Not "job control", but in the
>>same vein.
it was a long time ago, but i vaguely recall that particular feature was
precisely the one that was adapted to form `job control' on `unix',
which also explains why `job control' was the term used
in a system that had no `jobs'. it was probably designated by
Mrs Malaprop.
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2002-07-18 14:53 forsyth [this message]
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2002-07-30 16:18 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-30 5:11 Russ Cox
2002-07-18 15:02 rog
2002-07-18 14:13 ` Sam
2002-07-18 16:19 ` matt
2002-07-18 16:34 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 21:37 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-07-18 3:49 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 3:23 Geoff Collyer
2002-07-18 18:30 ` Chet Ramey
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