From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:19:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dc555cf-b018-1599-d685-7011590c9c10@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861swaab9n.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org>
Yes, ITS and Tenex/TOPS were the inspiration for UNIX ^Z. When I was at
Berkeley, of course we didn't have windowing environments, we had dumb
terminals, and it was nice to be able to interrupt a long-running job
for a shell command. I recall asking for it, and I think Bill put it
into csh.
On 01/10/2017 12:52 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> I asked:
>> I wonder where the inspiration for the Unix job control came from? In
>> particular, I can't help but notice that Control-Z does something very
>> similar in the PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System.
> Jim Kulp answered:
>> The ITS capabilities were certainly part of the inspiration. It was a
>> combination of frustrations and gaps in UNIX with some of those
>> features found in ITS that resulted in the final package of features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 20:52 Lars Brinkhoff
2017-01-11 3:19 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2017-01-11 12:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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