From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:37:34 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] BSD job control, aka the guy, etc
In-Reply-To: <7dc555cf-b018-1599-d685-7011590c9c10@mhorton.net> (Mary Ann
 Horton's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:19:44 -0800")
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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.