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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Futures
Message-ID: <33@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 04:22:42 EST
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In article <257@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
writes:

>Job control is pretty neat, if all you have is a dumb terminal.
>But an even better solution is virtual consoles, or windows.

... and goes on to describe how wonderful it is.

It is nice indeed: I have a Sun here with windows.  But then, it is
also nice to have job control so that I can do similar things from
home.  (Or could, if I had a phone....)  `Get better equipment' is,
to many, an unacceptable answer, alas.
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