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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] History of top
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 11:48:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1805291147350.75317@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NQyUKZBp-EPC4bzG6=xkxSZj=vKmvWTthbKg-Yyga-fg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 29 May 2018, Clem Cole wrote:

> ​  This was really to tell the user, when the system would get to your
> work.   BTW, ^T was cool on Tenex, because being interactive, it was just
> your process and helped you know how where ​your 'active' process stood
> relative to the other things the system was doing (i.e. was it running or
> waiting and how busy was the system as a whole).

I found ^T useful on FreeBSD, where it does more or less the same thing.

-uso.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-29 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-28 22:43 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-05-29  0:16 ` Clem cole
2018-05-29  1:34   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-29  6:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-29 14:18   ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 15:10     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 15:48     ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2018-05-29 16:54 ` Paul Winalski
2018-05-29 17:08   ` Arthur Krewat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-29 21:35 Norman Wilson
2018-05-29 21:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-29 18:55 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-29 19:14 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-29 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-29 20:57   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-30  5:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24 12:20 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-24 14:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-24 14:43   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-05-28 10:31 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24  6:14 Lars Brinkhoff
2018-05-24  9:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-24 10:58   ` jason-tuhs

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