[TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation]

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Tue Feb 11 19:33:52 AEST 2020


Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Readline and job control were less compelling when you had multiple command
> windows of editable typescript, which we all had with the Blit.

Understandable. But the 99.9999% of us not in 1127 only had glass ttys.

I did have a DMD 5620 for a while (which I loved), but I don't recall
that it had editiable typescripts.  I thought that that came in
with 8-1/2 in Plan 9?

Thanks,

Arnold


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