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From: boyd@inset.UUCP (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Futures
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 09:27:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 09:27:10 1986
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  >campbell@maynard.UUCP <257@maynard.UUCP>:
  >| Job control is pretty neat, if all you have is a dumb terminal.
  >

Job control is pretty neat, if all you have is a maniac to implement it.

The SysV shl is a much better implementation, because it's a "bolt-on".
Not, a huge kernel/user level kludge/rewrite (4.N approach).

The way to go is to buy a jerq (5620) and somehow run the V8 mux/jim etc.
The stuff that comes with SysV is truly revolting, and almost unusable.
Invest some time into fixing the SysVile layers mess.

The V8 stuff is SOOOO sweet.


Boyd Roberts

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