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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
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Subject: Re: Teaching UNIX
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 18:37:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 18:37:46 1984
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Herb Chong writes:

> I might point out that UTS implementation of Unix is not a complete
> one.

It would be nice if you made clear *which* UTS you are refering to.

In the letter from amdahl!hlj you quoted:

> The UTS 2.x product does not support vi, as it supports only 3270's
> and half duplex ASCII terminals.  A development version of UTS that
> we use in the lab supports full duplex terminals, and thus vi and uucp,
> through special software modifications in the 4705 communications
> control (frontend).

Thus while UTS 2.x does not have full-duplex support, its successor
will.  Also UTS 2.x has full-screen editors for 3270-type terminals
(which is the most common terminal used with 370-type CPUs), as well
as other such full-screen utilities, so your analogy to "tset dumb"
is not fair to that implimentation.
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam

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