[TUHS] terminal - just for fun

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Aug 6 00:46:21 AEST 2014


John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> arnold at skeeve.com scripsit:
>
> > I think I'd trust the memory of the Bell Labs guys here. The tty driver
> > (and stty(1)) had options for translating LF to CR+LF on output and
> > CR to LF on input.  I've seen mention here and in other places of Model 33
> > too many times to believe that it was really a Model 37.  :-)
>
> That shows that they did have Model 33s, as was confirmed for me in
> private mail.  At first there were only a few Model 37s, but they
> did exist; after nroff, they became more common.

Interesting that they had both - I don't remember hearing about the 37
but that doesn't mean much. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold



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