From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:08:58 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?
In-Reply-To: <201712191848.vBJImVwD028248@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (Doug
 McIlroy's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:48:31 -0500")
References: <201712191848.vBJImVwD028248@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Message-ID: <7wd13aa3ad.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

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.