[TUHS] early Unix terminals (was: Re: Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C)

[Bakul Shah via TUHS]

On May 20, 2026, at 6:22 PM, G. Branden Robinson via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I think BSD had a Ctrl-T that dug info out of the kernel and displayed
>> it on that line.
> 
> Yup.  With that factoid, not long ago I surprised a colleague at UNSW
> who was much closer to being Present at the Creation than I could have
> been.  He knew Research Unix backwards and forwards, but not BSD.

Ctrl-T performed a similar function on TOPS-10. [I used it at USC in '70s]

On curly braces: lack of the same on European typewriters is why Pascal
has (* ... *) as an alternative syntax to { ... } for comments.