On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

At MIT, the PWB1 (effectively) system that was standard at Tech Sq had had its

teletype driver completely re-written by the time I started using it, and that

was changed, so I never saw this IRL.

Didn't Steve Zimmerman (of Zimmerman emacs) fame have his hand in this?

He hacked the MSCP tty handler heavily with a lot MIT features.

It was probably post the MIT job control stuff, but the tty handler I remember and somewhat miss was a TENEX-like ^T feature that did a one line ps of the jobs attached to your terminal.

An even bigger problem was that in vanilla V6, there's _no way_ to do 8-bit
input _and_ output. Sheesh.

Painful memories ... I remember seeing that early on too V5 too and thinking 'what a hack' as we had many glass TTY's with only an ASR33 on the console back then. And we were also trying to download binaries (to other processors) so an 8-bit path was wanted.