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.