From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:59:27 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards In-Reply-To: <20201126145134.GB394251@mit.edu> References: <9c1595cc-54a1-8af9-0c2d-083cb04dd97c@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20201125172255.83D252146F@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <20201126145134.GB394251@mit.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > To make this a bit more TUHS-focused, was there anything that had > similar functionality which pre-dated Bill Joy and termcap in late 70's? As I recall, one wrote code "knowing" that it was a VT-05 etc if you wanted escape sequences; I dimly recall using a getty-like file to get the terminal type. Thus, /dev/tty8 was invariably (but not always) the dreaded VT-05 (one client used a Duckwriter as the console, because he wanted a hard-copy of everything; one day, the system went berserk (a bad sector smack on the error log) and so did the hard copy, as Unix faithfully tried to record each error). -- Dave