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From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins)
Subject: stty erase '^?' in v7
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 15:10:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6C18EDF4-7532-4C56-B566-D1C1A0C0A81C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B12F2924-0495-4DB8-BA00-2B529DA03EE3@ronnatalie.com>

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I loved ^T on Unix! I remember when somebody at UMCP added that feature to our 4.2 BSD Vax mimsy. The early version had the fun side-effect of being unregulated. Who added the one-second delay between responding to ^T so you couldn’t any longer hold down ^T with auto-repeat to drive the CPU load through the ceiling and watch as it got higher and higher trying to respond to all those ^T's? (Does that qualify as a Heizenbug, or is that a denial of self service?)

-Don


> On 14 Oct 2017, at 16:44, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> 
> When Mike Muuss was working on the scheduler he added the ^T ala TENEX process list.    What was displayed changed over time.    I think I finally moved a “snippet” of the arg list over from the user structure to the proc structure so ^T would be able to get it.
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-15 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-14 12:52 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-14 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-14 14:44   ` Ronald Natalie
2017-10-15 13:10     ` Don Hopkins [this message]
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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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