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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Futures
Message-ID: <532@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 17:31:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 17:31:37 1986
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In article <6534@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>The fact is, *both* job control and shell layers are brain-damaged.  Both
>do the easy part of multiplexing -- centralized input administration --
>without the hard part -- centralized output administration.

You should be careful with these ideas, Henry:  someone is liable
to use them.  I know *you* would never actually suggest something
like this, but now someone will hack up 4.XBSD to remember what
each processes' screen looks like and redraw it when you `fg'!
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