From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you! From: forsyth@vitanuova.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:53:34 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d09c4746-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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.