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From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] V6 Console IO
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 21:08:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26c53489-7683-4b40-bf24-b910af5a9a78@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqH4yYqReNjq2Cj0qn=GV1w7Ui0_HkLOWwDqLHJ==8W6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020, at 11:31, Richard Salz wrote:
> Wasn't there an issue that v7 atty used stdin and BSD used stdout?

v7 uses stdout, but system iii and v use stdin. oddly enough, later research unix appears to unconditionally open /dev/tty, making the redirection trick entirely unavailable.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24  2:28 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-24  4:54 ` Paul Riley
2020-07-24 16:37   ` Random832
2020-07-24 17:15     ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25  2:45       ` Random832
2020-07-24 14:34 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25  2:48   ` Paul Riley
2020-07-25  4:02     ` John Cowan
2020-07-25 15:09       ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25 15:31         ` Richard Salz
2020-07-26  1:08           ` Random832 [this message]
2020-07-27  9:11             ` Paul Riley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-07-25 17:45 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-24 14:33 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-24 14:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25  1:53   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-24  0:18 Paul Riley
2020-07-24  2:57 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-24  4:41   ` Paul Riley
2020-07-24  4:54     ` Paul Riley
2020-07-24 14:01       ` Larry McVoy

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