15 Oct
2017
15 Oct
'17
3:10 p.m.
I loved ^T on Unix! I remember when somebody at UMCP added that feature to our 4.2 BSD Vax
mimsy. The early version had the fun side-effect of being unregulated. Who added the
one-second delay between responding to ^T so you couldn’t any longer hold down ^T with
auto-repeat to drive the CPU load through the ceiling and watch as it got higher and
higher trying to respond to all those ^T's? (Does that qualify as a Heizenbug, or is
that a denial of self service?)
-Don
On 14 Oct 2017, at 16:44, Ronald Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
When Mike Muuss was working on the scheduler he added the ^T ala TENEX process list.
What was displayed changed over time. I think I finally moved a “snippet” of the arg
list over from the user structure to the proc structure so ^T would be able to get it.