On Tue, 29 May 2018, Clem Cole wrote:
This was really to tell the user, when the system
would get to your
work. BTW, ^T was cool on Tenex, because being interactive, it was just
your process and helped you know how where your 'active' process stood
relative to the other things the system was doing (i.e. was it running or
waiting and how busy was the system as a whole).
I found ^T useful on FreeBSD, where it does more or less the same thing.
-uso.