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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: UCB/USL lawsuit settled Message-ID: <CLJF38.IKB@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 19:21:06 GMT References: <pdhCLC13r.61u@netcom.com> <2k12l8$flq@explorer.clark.net> <CLF9u9.HBw@usenix.org> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 In article <CLF9u9.HBw@usenix.org> peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter H. Salus) writes: > ...the CSRG continued what has been done for > 15 years: incorporation of good work into > a release that was done by one of the "far flung" > users. (Recall, the first version of job > control in 4.1 was done by Jim Kulp at IIASA > in Austria.) These two statements are unquestionably true, Peter, but what have they to do with each other? :-) (Job control was not "good work"; it was a wretched botch that probably delayed the appearance of better multiplexed-interaction schemes for years, and will continue to haunt us for decades since it somehow got into POSIX. Its wide acceptance only shows how desperate people were for *some kind* of multiplexed interaction, however awkward and gross.) -- Belief is no substitute | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for arithmetic. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry