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From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch)
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Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment (Bechtolsheim patent) (SUID Patent)
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 02:04:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 11 02:04:20 1986
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Just a note in the interest of historical accuracy.

The JACCT bit on PDP-10's has been around a long long time.  I first
used a PDP-10 in 1970, and the JACCT bit was in the operating system
then.  (btw, JACCT is mnemonic for Job ACCounTing bit, since
originally the only program which ran with JACCT was the
login/logout programs.)  I believe JACCT existed ever since the days
of the PDP-6 (1968? 1966? anyone know?), and it had the same
function, BUT it did not then trap control-C's -- they instead were
translated to escapes!

[For those of you out there in netland to know the pleasure of
running your own jacct'ed programs -- cheers.  today's hackers never
had it so good.]