From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: stty erase '^?' in v7
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:52:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171014125246.8373318C09A@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Will Senn
> I didn't know that the delete key served a purpose, interrupt
At MIT, the PWB1 (effectively) system that was standard at Tech Sq had had its
teletype driver completely re-written by the time I started using it, and that
was changed, so I never saw this IRL.
Recently, I needed a Unix to run under Ersatz-11, to talk to physical QBUS
-11's and download them over their console line, so I went with V6 (since I
had not at that point managed to recover the MIT system). Wow. Talk about
a rude awakening!
That was one of the things that was, ah, problematic - and in V6, there's no
way to change the interrupt character. (And no, I didn't feel like switching
to a later version!)
An even bigger problem was that in vanilla V6, there's _no way_ to do 8-bit
input _and_ output. Sheesh. I managed to fix that too, after a certain amount
of pain. (I missed a code path, or something like that, and it took me quite a
while to figure out why my fixes didn't work.)
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2017-10-14 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 12:52 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-10-14 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-14 14:44 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-10-15 13:10 ` Don Hopkins
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2017-10-15 14:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 4:25 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 4:48 ` Will Senn
2017-10-14 6:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-14 14:03 ` Will Senn
2017-10-14 22:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-14 2:59 Will Senn
2017-10-14 4:08 ` Grant Taylor
2017-10-14 4:39 ` Random832
2017-10-14 5:03 ` Will Senn
2017-10-16 14:46 ` Random832
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