13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
2:42 a.m.
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Dennis described streams in the special Unix issue of
the
BSTJ, Oct 1984, and noted that "it runs on about 20 machines in
... Research ... Although it is being investigated in other
parts of AT&T Bell Laboratories, it is not generally available."
The manuscript was received October 18, 1983.
Interesting, but then nobody did run a modern shell on one of these machines or
everybody did type slowly, so the character lossage problem did not occur.
Jörg
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