Re: terminal driver hacks

[Alan Flippen <flippen@nytimes.com>]

^R was "retype the current line." DELTA invented it for, I believe, RSTS
V06V (the "virtual terminal handler" version that Dan Grim, Eric Nystrom
etc. did); DEC adopted it for either V06C or V7.0.

I believe I invented and coded ^V, but I'm damned if I can recall what it
was. I should get a chance to go through my DELTA attic in a couple of
weeks, and I know it's recorded somewhere in there, so I'll let you know.

As for scope rubouts, I think DEC may also have adopted them a couple of
versions of RSTS later than we did.

I think there was also a ^T, but I don't remember if it was ours or DEC's.

More in a week or two, maybe ...

Cheers,
Alan 

At 04:21 PM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Rich Thomson wrote:
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>> Does anyone have a canonical list of terminal driver hacks that
>> originated at DELTA? 
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>Dave and I did "Scope Rubouts".  I designed the algorithm, Dave with his
>assembly whiz, which he is still doing now, made the modifications.
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>^R was "Re-type the current line"
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>^V escapes me.  It may have been the precurssor to DEC's ^R.  "V" was
>verify in TECO.
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>Ron
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> The "history" mentions ^V, but we can't seem
>> to remember what it did. :)  I recall that ^V was a local hack, but
>> I can't exactly remember its function... was it some sort of foreground/
>> background job control?  I remember Ed Jones telling me about unix
>> job control (^Z, ^Y), and I have a vague memory of trying out unix job
>> control and thinking I liked DELTA's job control better.
>> --
>> 					    Rich Thomson
>> 					    rthomson@ptc.com
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