[TUHS] Control-T in UNIX

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

To be clear, it was Chris Torek's patch that we put into 4.2 and 4.3.
I didn't develop it.

Reese Johnson via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Wow! Thank you so much. I'm a bit younger but I really love Unix. I am
> located in Georgia too. I use ^T all the time still on FreeBSD. I had
> no idea GT had something to do with it. Nice to meet you all. This list
> is so amazing.
>
> Thanks
> Reese KN4NTU
> 73
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 01:23:02PM -0600, Arnold Robbins via TUHS wrote:
> > It was indeed posted to USENET, but didn't (IIRC) make it into the
> > official 4.3 BSD release.
> > 
> > Scott Lee and I put it in to 4.2 BSD at Georgia Tech, and I think I
> > put it into 4.3BSD + Mt. Xinu at Emory.
> > 
> > At GT, I remember a professor who came from MIT being pleasantly
> > surprised to learn that we had ^T on the vax. :-)
> > 
> > Rich Salz via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > My recollection is that Chris Torek at University of Maryland added control
> > > t to the bsd tty driver and it was made available in 4.3 or so. It was
> > > posted to Usenet which is where I read about it
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2026, 7:02 AM Ron Natalie via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > When Mike Muuss was playing with enhancing the UNIX scheduler in our
> > > > (largely V6 based) kernels, we had access to some of the DEC-10 OS’s
> > > > that did have control-T.
> > > > Mike added that to our kernel (llisting all the processes running on the
> > > > terminal) so he could get some feedback on what his tweaks were doing.
> > > >
> > > > -Ron
> > > >
> > > >