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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:20:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E27EAD0B-24ED-4308-99C9-81A8AD892724@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29triSJ2vnowHEA73JqF_AtJh3Wm=BntUYHd16peVp2ajkQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 13, 2022, at 8:48 AM, Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What about Jim Culp and IIASA? Didn't he do the first BSD job control stuff?  What else did they provide?

Indeed he did. IIASA is in landlocked Austria! I read about this a very long time ago so don't recall if there was anything else as significant. ^Z was very useful when we didn't have a graphics display and multiple windows. Even now I have a few ^Z'ed processes lying about!

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-11 18:36 Dan Cross
2022-01-11 18:45 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-11 18:50 ` John Floren
2022-01-11 19:34 ` John Cowan
2022-01-11 20:17   ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:25     ` George Michaelson
2022-01-11 20:44       ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:57         ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-11 22:17         ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-11 22:41           ` Andrew Hume
2022-01-12  0:15             ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 22:14       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 15:44     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-12 23:15   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13  1:34     ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13 15:37   ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:32   ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 16:48     ` Richard Salz
2022-01-13 17:20       ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-01-13 19:56         ` John Cowan
2022-01-12  3:38 Douglas McIlroy

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