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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: paging in the terminal driver
Message-ID: <1749@geac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 08:10:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 08:10:23 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <843@gumby.UUCP> earl@mips.UUCP (Earl Killian) writes:
|   The ITS operating system did this and it worked fairly well...
| 
| Unix borrowed many things from the ITS operating system (e.g. job
| control and symbolic links (ITS probably got symbolic links from
| Multics)).  It's too bad Unix didn't borrow the ITS terminal system as
| well; it would have been a significant improvement because Unix still
| has one of the most primitive terminal interfaces I've seen.


  Could you comment a bit more on what ITS did? I've seen a brief 
discussion (in Brenie Greenberg's Emacs paper), but admit near-total
ignornace of what it was like...
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