20 Dec
2017
20 Dec
'17
2:08 a.m.
Doug McIlroy wrote:
Fair enough! Job control was a BSD thing in the beginning.
Job control
was inspired by ITS job control capabilities. Control-Z
does pretty much the same thing in both operating systems.
I don't think
"carried forward" describes job control, which I
believe was never in any Research system. "Borrowed" would be
more accurate. In fact, I don't recall being aware of the
existence of the ITS
movement at the time Unix arose.
Was there ever a movement? It was just four machines at MIT.