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From: defron@tart6.BERKELEY.EDU (Daniel Efron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II (really SE: A letdown?)
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 18:13:37 EST
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In article <409@hydra.riacs.edu> julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E. Gomez) writes:
>BSD also has jobs control, which is an immense help when dealing with a
>line oriented operating system such as UNIX.  If you're lucky enough to
> . . .
>background AFTER you've hit CR.  "SYS V with BSD enhancements" usually
>means things like "vi" and "csh" but not jobs control, which I find of
>greater utility than something like getopt().

Look, job control is not something that is specific to versions of UNIX, but
rather which terminal driver you are using.  BSD has both the 'old' and the
'new' terminal drivers.  The 'new' terminal driver was added to provide 
hooks for csh to do job control.

It is very possible for Sys V shells to have job control.  Ksh is a prime
example.  I believe A/UX comes with sh, csh and ksh.

Also, I have seen A/UX (running X) here at Berkeley and it looks like a solid
implementation.  It has the a lot of the best features of both BSD and Sys V.

Personally I feel that it doesn't matter which version of UNIX you use (I use
BSD 4.2, 4.3, Sun 3.3, SV2 and SV3) if YOU DON'T HAVE SOURCE.

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     Daniel Efron
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