From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:48:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712191848.vBJImVwD028248@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> > are there other tangible[1] manifestations of non-UNIX operating
> > system things like the GECOS field that were carried forward intact in
> > later UNIX implementations?
>
> Job control was inspired by ITS job control capabilities. Control-Z
> does pretty much the same thing in both operating systems.
I don't think "carried forward" describes job control, which I
believe was never in any Research system. "Borrowed" would be
more accurate. In fact, I don't recall being aware of the
existence of the ITS movement at the time Unix arose.
Doug
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2017-12-19 18:48 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2017-12-19 20:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19 22:26 ` Doug McIlroy
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2017-12-20 1:03 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-19 20:29 Richard Tobin
2017-12-19 6:00 Nigel Williams
2017-12-19 6:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19 7:07 ` Don Hopkins
2017-12-19 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 19:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-19 20:03 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 20:14 ` arnold
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