[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Sep 7 05:44:40 EDT 2023


On 2023-09-06 18:15, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 06/09/2023 16:28, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2023-09-05 21:31, candycane wrote:
>>>   > SIGINFO on FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>   JB> I think all BSD systems (including OSX). And the nice thing 
>>> being that
>>>   JB> SIGINFO can be made to be generated when you hit ^T (or 
>>> whatever other
>>>   JB> character you fancy).
>>>
>>> Wow, I wish Linux had that feature.
>>
>> Indeed. It's kindof actually a mystery to me why Linux have not 
>> adopted this...
>>
>>    Johnny
> 
> Did the use of Ctrl-T start with VMS, or is it used elsewhere?

Both Tops-10, TOPS-20 and RSTS/E have it. Not sure what other systems 
might also have had this.

   Johnny




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