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From: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark)
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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