From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:52:04 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
Message-ID: <861swaab9n.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org>

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.