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From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs
Subject: Re: Berkeley terminal driver user interface
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 01:10:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 01:10:07 1984
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>	I think more praise is due the user interface.  It is ...
>	simple outside ....  --me

> How can you say that the Berkeley terminal driver (i.e. job control) 
> provides a simple outside world?  Do you not have to fix things
> like vi, more and (of all things!!) the shell to understand
> about what the terminal driver is likely to do?
>
> But Berkeley told you it was ok, so there's no worries.  --Boyd Roberts

That last is unjustified, I think; but the rest of your criticism makes
some sense.  My answers are that (1) I was talking about the terminal
user's interface, not the program interface, and perhaps I did not make
that clear; and (2) I use the Bourne shell, so I forgot about job control,
which is not as beautiful as the rest, to put it mildly.

	Sam Kendall	{allegra,ihnp4,ima,amd70}!wjh12!kendall
	Delft Consulting Corp.	    decvax!genrad!wjh12!kendall