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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:08:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wd13aa3ad.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201712191848.vBJImVwD028248@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (Doug McIlroy's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:48:31 -0500")

Doug McIlroy wrote:
>> 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.

Fair enough!  Job control was a BSD thing in the beginning.

> In fact, I don't recall being aware of the existence of the ITS
> movement at the time Unix arose.

Was there ever a movement?  It was just four machines at MIT.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 18:48 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-19 20:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2017-12-19 22:26   ` Doug McIlroy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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