* [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
@ 2017-01-10 20:52 Lars Brinkhoff
2017-01-11 3:19 ` Mary Ann Horton
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From: Lars Brinkhoff @ 2017-01-10 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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* [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
2017-01-10 20:52 [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc Lars Brinkhoff
@ 2017-01-11 3:19 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-01-11 12:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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From: Mary Ann Horton @ 2017-01-11 3:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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* [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
2017-01-11 3:19 ` Mary Ann Horton
@ 2017-01-11 12:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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From: Lars Brinkhoff @ 2017-01-11 12:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> Jim Kulp wrote:
>> Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, ITS and Tenex/TOPS were the inspiration for UNIX ^Z.
Not so much TOPS-20, according to Jim Kulp.
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