Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 21:31:30 -0500 From: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) To: cs.weber.edu!terry@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken Message-ID: <199503050231.VAA01992@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: sbstark!cs.weber.edu!terry's message of Sat, 4 Mar 95 15:03:52 MST
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>The DEL as interrupt is a System V'ism resulting from an early inability >of the System V tty driver to recognize a break character. Hmm... I remember Unix Version IV (in 1975) as having DEL as the interrupt, not to mention # as the rubout character and @ as the kill line character. I think Version III was the same, though I only really started using Unix at Version IV. Surely this predates System V! - Gene
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