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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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